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A future where cancer is controlled but not cured is just as good and might be easier to achieve. I hope science gets there before I get cancer which is inevita
by homero 9y ago
A future where cancer is controlled but not cured is just as good and might be easier to achieve. I hope science gets there before I get cancer which is inevitable, unless I die from a heart attack.
- agumonkey 9y agoMethinks future lies in between. Many people say that we all have cancer, at different scales and different reach. So just avoiding massive tumors and metastasis is probable the goal.
- jcims 9y agoAgreed. My wife is going through this now, and the primary issue is the uncertainty around it all. Nobody can tell her what her future holds, just that there's a very high likelihood that 'success' will be fleeting and this won't be our last series of chemo. I may be misunderstanding what the author proposes, but if the threat of cancer was reduced to the physiological impacts of dormant tumors, I'm pretty sure we would consider that a win.
- gjm11 9y agoLook on the bright side: You might get hit by a bus instead.
- pnutjam 9y agoSo cancer will only kill poor Americans?
- dang 9y ago"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html