Quick: What's your favorite tumor?
Hands down, mine is a teratoma. I think they are really neat, and really satisfying. This thing isn't just a bunch of disordered cells with 92 chromosomes. These are crazy suckers that grow ordered human tissue in places it isn't supposed to be. How is that not awesome?!
I often wonder how it would be if the teratoma had nervous tissue. Obviously, you'd be unlikely to get a whole brain, but it wouldn't take a lot to get a squirrel worth of white matter. What if it had a brain and vocal cords and kept shouting things? What if it was kind of a chauvanist? It might make sexist jokes from inside your gut. You can't tell me that would be an easy tumor to deal with.
Maybe it's a violin virtuoso that can't control any hands. That would be unlucky. For the tumor.
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