The "100 years" thing is an easy dunk but it does reveal a fundamental misunderstanding about what cancer is that drives a lot of false expectations about "a cure for cancer" It's not a specific disease that appeared one day, it's not caused by a germ like COVID-19 or AIDShttps://twitter.com/MucciTina/status/1369300248338853901 …
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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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Besides, chemo isn't the *only* thing... we can also use a variety of directed energy weapons to blast the bits of you that have gone rogue
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and there's some preventive vaccines for specific cancer types
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