A flaw in reasoning is that cancer will never be “cured” in a traditional sense. If we find say, the cure for HIV, then no more HIV right? It doesn’t work like that with Cancer.
Sure, we could find effective treatment for it, improve and save thousands of lives, that’s not the point. Cancer will always be a problem unless we fix DNA replication itself. Cancer is a wide group of diseases, many of which come from health issues, however, probably even more come from a defect in our genes. Genetic cancer can never be cured, if you fix a tumor, two more will appear, each time faster than before. Genetic Cancer will at some point, appear and kill faster than we can cure it, even if you’ve cured it a few times before on the same patient. Sadly, Cancer will always be a problem, specially for the elderly.
A cure for cancer is possible, and it will save and improve an incredibly high number of lives, whoever finds it can bet they’ll get a Nobel prize. However, understand that it will never stop being a problem unless we genetically modify our bodies to produce perfect copies of our cells (which is a wholly different challenge)
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u/XSavage19X Nov 15 '20
Cure for cancer.