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There are already a tonne of effective treatments for cancers of many kinds and there are many kinds of cancer that can already be effectively cured if they are diagnosed at a sufficiently early state. It's just that we don't have a single approach that is safe, effective and relatively free of side effects that cure most cancers in most conditions.

There may in fact never be a single cure for all kinds of cancer, because as several people have already pointed out, it isn't really a single disease, rather a class of diseases but in the mean time any compound that shows efficacy in some types of cancer is another weapon in the arsenal until an approach that is more globally effective is discovered.

In short, this substance may cure cancer in some people but it's probably not going to be the ultimate cure for cancer (which may not even exist).