Talk:Salem/@comment-35941743-20190907032213/@comment-35434444-20190914100437

＠ Sentry 616

"...but if she didn't get any from walking awar from gound zero, I'd call BS."

I suppose, but even with continuous exposure to radiation from the fallout, if Salem can regenerate her entire body in a matter of seconds, there might be enough time for some cells to become malignant, but not enough time for a tumour to form, much   less any actual symptoms of cancer   since it takes about two hours for a human cell to undergo mitosis. So whether or not that's worth calling cancer is dubious.

To use an analogy, if there were nanomachines that could eradicate flu infections in your body so quickly that you never developed any cold symptoms, would it be worth saying that it was possible for you to catch flu? You have millions of pathogenic cells in your body right now, but you never notice them because for the majority of the time they are suppressed by the immune system enough not to produce symptoms.

I'd say "faulty cell replication" is correct but carries a lot of misleading omissions, but it seems you know enough about the subject that you're not using it in error so I won't contest you on this point.

I already told you I'm not going to dial the arrogance down until it no longer fazes you.

That's why it's there.