It's a fundamental thing that can go wrong with any multicellular organism It takes a lot of complex, delicate systems we still don't fully understand to force your cells to take orders and act like part of a team rather than growing out of control
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It's not really a mystery why we get cancer, it's a mystery why we DON'T get cancer It's a simple thing for cells to just keep growing and dividing mindlessly and it's hard to keep them under control, shape them into a particular form and function, and have them die on schedule
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"Curing cancer" or "being immune to cancer" is this very general concept, it's like hoping to design software that's immune to bugs Like hoping for scientists to invent a pill that makes you completely immune to broken bones or bleeding
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So I mean no one should begrudge anyone their frustration with cancer as a phenomenon or their wish for a magic bullet But realistically all the solutions are gonna be tough because the problem is "ID and destroy your own cells with your own DNA that are malfunctioning"
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And we should not downplay that we've made incredible progress over the past 100 years Childhood leukemia used to be an automatic death sentence, now the survival rate is 90+% As awful as the process of chemo is, that's not nothing
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I don't get the conspiracy theories. There are drugs that cost millions per dose (Zolgesma for spinal muscular degeneration). If someone could cure cancer, they could charge just as much, with a MUCH bigger patient population.
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Not to mention, if they DID do that, they'd increase the number of people down the road who would be genetically predisposed to needing it, too.
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Low dose chemo ( methotrexate) is keeping my autoimmune disease in check, for now. I poison myself a little once a week so that I can have a semi-normal kinda life. The possible side effect is lymphoma.
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It’s also a grossly simplistic concept that these quacks believe all cancers are very similar & equally treatable. There are many subtypes & treatment varies greatly. The kids mum had an nasty HER2 breast cancer if it wasn’t for treatments she would have died 5 years earlier
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It's also not "the best we can do", it's a last resort. We have a lot of therapies for individual cancers now.
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