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There will never be a single cure to all cancers. Different cancers have different underlying mechanisms and affect different tissues.
by thfuran 1y ago
There will never be a single cure to all cancers. Different cancers have different underlying mechanisms and affect different tissues.
- somenameforme 1y agoI think this is untrue. All work by uncontrolled replication of cells. This is why nanotechnology had the promise of being able to eliminate cancer - imagine a nano scale robot regularly cycling through your body on occasion, looking for and eliminating cancerous growths. Drugs, though, probably have very limited potential.
- whycome 1y agoMaybe. The fact that some animals are especially immune to cancers suggest there are ways to prevent the outcome (cell replication/mutation).
- fluoridation 1y agoAre they immune to cancer, or do they simply not live long enough to develop them? AFAIK, only plants are immune to cancer.
- actionfromafar 1y agoElephants and naked mole rats. https://www.sciencealert.com/these-animals-can-t-get-cancer-and-scientists-think-they-could-hold-a-cure https://www.sciencealert.com/these-animals-can-t-get-cancer-...
- hidroto 1y agoThese might not technically be cancers but the similarity is there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burl