Large Cities And Cancer Share An Unexpected Similarity

10 Apr 2024 | Abstracted from Science Alert

"Researchers argue that the same key factors that govern the growth of cancer also seem to govern the spread of urban spaces...Understanding that similarity could help us build better cities for the future...The use of trains, however, permitted a shift to suburban living, allowing residents to live further and further out from the center.

"..international team of researchers argue... are comparative to how blood vessels in cancerous tumors sprout and split, forging new 'roads' into emerging tissue."

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