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Yeah, the whole "curing cancer" meme always sounded murky and a bit lame TBH. It's unlikely it's a binary thing or state that get's magically achieved by one pe
by wamatt 14y ago
Yeah, the whole "curing cancer" meme always sounded murky and a bit lame TBH. It's unlikely it's a binary thing or state that get's magically achieved by one person or a team, and much more likely the result of small, incremental advances.
Cancer itself is not even "one thing" phenomologically speaking (IAMNA oncologist) it's a broad class of diseases, that may or may not have a single 'solution'.
Solution, in this context, being a state where the population does not need to worry about cancer as a statistically significant cause of death. It could equally likely linger in a status that is managed but not 'cured' in the traditional sense of the word, aka HIV.