Even if two mutations had the exact same chance of happening in a given organism, if one of those would confer much greater chance of evading the immune system that the other, you would end up seeing a lot more cancers with the 1st mutation, even if the mutation itself didn't have a higher chance of appearing.
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Even if two mutations had the exact same chance of happening in a given organism, if one of those would confer much greater chance of evading the immune system that the other, you would end up seeing a lot more cancers with the 1st mutation, even if the mutation itself didn't have a higher chance of appearing.