At current rates, about one in two Australians can expect a cancer diagnosis by the age of 85. Vets, livestock farmers, pet owners and anyone who spends time around animals will also know that cancer can strike a whole range of creatures. Plants can get cancer too. While cancer doesn’t affect plants like it does us, it can cause costly problems for horticultural and agricultural growers. In humans and other animals, new healthy cells grow in an orderly and regulated way to replace damaged or dead cells.