Lani, "queen of the edible analogies" highly recommends this NYT article

[Lani]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/science/a-tumor-the-embryos-evil-twin.html

No edible analogies, but excellent analogies nonetheless!

[Pamelamary]

Sontag and sonic hedgehogs! Guess we are stuck with the "battle"....

[suzan w]

interesting...I had always pictured my tumor as an invader and it had to go.

[linn65]

I am not a fan on the metaphor of a baby being a demon aka cancer because even though my son can have demon behavior he is still my angel.....Lani, I still like the puppy analogy better!��.