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I agree with the sentiment, maybe one day we can hope to "hack" cancer. Once we can deconstruct something, we can control it, destroy it, whatever. RIP Mitch H
by jroseattle 13y ago
I agree with the sentiment, maybe one day we can hope to "hack" cancer. Once we can deconstruct something, we can control it, destroy it, whatever.
RIP Mitch Hill. Seattle, represent.
- brazzy 13y agoUnlikely, because cancer is not one thing but many. Each kind of cancer behaves differently, is susceptible to different treatments. And I once read an article about a genetic analysis that found dozens of completely different strains of cells in a single tumor.
- groupthinker 13y agoCancer is a catch-all term for "molecular machinery run amok". The root causes are myriad.
- throwaway9848 13y agohttp://www.esquire.com/features/patient-zero-1213 http://www.esquire.com/features/patient-zero-1213 gives a pretty good feel for the challenges in treating cancer.
- jamesrcole 13y agoThere's lots of different types of diseases. That says nothing about the odds of (at some point) coming up with a treatment for any one of them
- brazzy 13y agoThe point is: cancer is really a whole family of diseases, and it's really unlikely that a single treatment will work on all of them.
- melling 13y agoThat's pretty well known at this point. That doesn't mean the problem(s) can't be solved. Early detection, and identifying exactly what type of cancer a person has would have a lot of value, for example.
- jamesrcole 13y agonobody said anything about a single treatment.
- jroseattle 13y agoDetails notwithstanding, I still want to hack it -- to pieces.
- dspillett 13y ago> maybe one day we can hope to "hack" cancer Not in the way you are meaning, but we already have. As well as virus call and bacteria we have tested using altered cancer cells as a delivery mechanism for medication (particularly against other cancer cells). I'm pretty sure there have been no human trials of anything like this yet though.