🧠🩺 Why cancers behave the way they do—and why treatments fail

For internists, cancer is not just an oncologic diagnosis but a systems disease: driven by dysregulated growth, immune evasion, metabolic reprogramming, inflammation, and adaptive resistance.

The Hallmarks of Cancer framework offers a unifying clinical lens—explaining recurrence, cachexia, immunotherapy variability, and late relapse—without drowning us in molecular minutiae.

Understanding how tumors survive stress, therapy, and time sharpens prognosis, improves cross-disciplinary care, and strengthens bedside reasoning.

🔬 From biology to bedside. 🧩 From mechanisms to meaning. 📈 From treatment to trajectory.