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It is easier to market something as the "cure" than to actually discover and validate a cure

• stochastic_monk 9y ago
  Just like, in spite of the fact that cancer cannot be cured, it’s a lot easier to market research to “cure” it rather than “treat” it.
  • danieltillett 9y ago
    Of course cancer can be cured. What I wish we did is spend more on preventing cnacer, but the regulatory system basically makes this impossible.
    • stochastic_monk 9y ago
      I don’t think so. Cancer is constantly being evolutionarily selected for. Eventually it finds a way to circumvent the cell’s regulatory system. In a way that you didn’t intend, you’re right it’s a problem with regulation. It seems to me to be a truism, much more akin to thermodynamics than typical biology.
      • danieltillett 9y ago
        Yes but we know from large long lived animals like elephants and bowhead whales that the cancer rate can be very significantly reduced. If we had the same anticancer systems as the bowhead whales basically no one would get cancer even if they lived for a 1000 years. This is what we need to be working on.