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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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 know you're right but as the daughter of a cancer victim, I'm still mad about it
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