Sigh. @JoeBiden, cancer is not a single disease. It's hundreds of diseases, at least. There will be no cure for "cancer." 1/https://twitter.com/pxwhittle/status/1138821937516429312 …
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In fact, there are already "cures" for individual cancers, such as breast cancer, colorectal cancer, various leukemias and lymphomas, etc. 2/
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It all depends on what you mean by "cure." Is an 80% long term survival rate high enough to say we have a "cure" for a cancer? 50%? What is a "cure" for a cancer, anyway? 3/
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If someone with a 10% chance of survival beats the odds, doesn't that count as a cure? If someone with a 90% chance of long term cancer-free survival doesn't respond to treatment and dies within months, does that mean we don't have a "cure" for that cancer? 4/
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There's so much simplistic thinking when it comes to cancer, with so much misleading terminology: cures, battle, war, etc. I understand
@JoeBiden's personal tragedy, with his son dying of brain cancer at a young age, but come on! 5/2 replies 2 retweets 18 likesShow this thread
It's the same sort of unrealistic, even magical, thinking that was behind @JoeBiden's #cancermoonshot. It's not helpful and leads to false hope and misallocation of resources. 6/6https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-cancer-moonshot-hype-versus-reality/ …
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