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Everyone has "cancer or whatever" resistance. That's why DNA works, it has repair mechanisms.
Getting cancer is when that mechanism either fails or isn't good enough to repair the damage.
Radiation can cause an excess of damage or different type of damage than what your natural mechanism is capable of fixing.