Rethinking Cancer

This article redefines cancer through Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy. Challenging models that frame cancer as a genetic error or stochastic mutation, I draw on Whitehead’s principle that “creativity is the ultimate causality.” Cancer thus emerges as a chaotic creative process: a concrescence wherein cells, dissociated from the organism’s integrated social order, construct a new relational nexus, guided by a deviant subjective aim. This framework explains therapy resistance, heterogeneity, and metastasis, and suggests therapeutic strategies should redirect pathological creativity, rather than target static entities.