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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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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That's how I heard it explained once--"its a mutation of YOUR cells, and since everyone's cells are different, there cannot be a one-size-fits-all cure, just general stuff you hope works."
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There is a "magic bullet" drug (Gleevec) but it's very specific to a kind of cancer that makes the cancerous cells exceptionally easy to target. That's really not the case for a lot of cancers.
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Chronic myelogenous leukemia is kind of an unusual cancer in that there's ONE thing that goes wrong genetically that drives the whole process. There's been some real survival improvements in certain lung and colon cancers and melanomas from targeted drugs...
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