? There’s advances all the time.
Yeah, the last few friends/family I know who were diagnosed with cancer in the 2020’s were all treated with the updated standard of care, using drugs/treatments/procedures developed in the previous decade. Even procedures that were developed a while back, like bone marrow transplants to treat leukemia, have been totally transformed to be less invasive, more targeted, more effective. The doctors also tend to choose the treatment based on certain genetic profiles of the patient or the tumor itself, with fewer side effects or higher effectiveness or both.
Cancer is not a single diseases, it’s many. And yes, many types of cancer can be treated successfully today, people’s lives are saved, and new, functioning drugs are created constantly. Progress is HUGE.
You probably live in some sort of a bubble as there’s news about new medications and treatments more than ever.
I understand that those are meant to maintain it. I meant actually curing all types of cancer as a whole.
To put a slightly different spin on what the other guys said:
Saying “cure all cancer” is like saying “cure all germs”. There’s just so many kinds and causes. It’s not one thing.
That’s because cancer is an umbrella term that encompasses tons of diseases. It’s not one single gene mutation that causes all of them that you could just find and fix forever. Usually it requires many mutations for a cell to become cancerous, so curing cancer is basically like playing whack-a-mole.
Cancer is still your own body’s tissues, so often the hardest part of developing treatments is finding something that will kill the cancer without fucking up everything else. Like, sure, sodium hydroxide kills cancer but we’re not going to just start injecting it into people’s veins.
Every cancer is its own thing much like every virus and bacteria is its own thing. There have been massive advancements and many people survive cancer now. crispr and mrna vaccines have the potential to come closer to a general cure but it would be somewhat like the flu vaccine where there would be multiple types and updates and stuff I think.
Thats what I ment that why we don’t just take a shot every year and give our body the juice it needs to minimize all cancers just in case.