Safiir on 28 November 2016
| vivster said: The first thing people need to get into their heads is that there is no single cure for cancer. Cancer is not a single virus, it's a symptom that can take many very different forms. You'd need a cure for every different version of cancer, which are quite a few. That's not even taking into account that different bodies react in different ways to cancer treatment. |
Seriously. I wish the media stop regurgitating this bullshit about cancer as a single disease. Heck, most people consider "cancer" to be the solid tumor variety (like lung cancer or breast cancer) and while they are more common than hematological malignancies (like the leukemias) they are also vastly different from them. So, no, a single cure for cancer is absolutely impossible even if we knew the exact mechanisms on why cancer occurs in the first place. And we don't.
