Cancer's displacement properties — self-sustaining wrong attractor, propagation, host resource extraction, return resistance — constitute a template shared by cystic fibrosis (four-wrong-attractor cascade), idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (YAP/TAZ mechanical feedback), prion disease (templated misfolding), autoimmune disease, Alzheimer's disease, and HIV/AIDS. The cancerous template is a formal disease category.
Recognizing it enables cross-disease intervention strategies targeting the template properties rather than disease-specific features.
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