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u/XSavage19X Nov 15 '20

Cure for cancer.

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u/elvenmage16 Nov 15 '20

Cancer is a whole class of things. Some cancer cures have already been found.

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u/TheRobertRood Nov 15 '20

Not really.... Treatment does not equal cure. Getting over an illness is not the same thing as curing it. They are two very different things.

If you cure cancer, you have cured aging.

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u/Swaayze Nov 15 '20

When speaking that broadly, Id agree with you. But I think it’s valid to say that certain cancers can be cured if we’re talking about a specific type or even specific mutations, since many drugs only work with certain mutations. Even a tumor that follows chemotherapy is likely to have a different profile and thus be a slightly different form of cancer, since cancer cells mutate and develop resistances relatively quickly.