How come we can find cures for up-and-coming diseases in usually less than ten years, but cancer has existed for so long and there still isn’t a reliable cure?
In: Biology
Cancer isn’t a disease as much a malfunction of your own cellular machinery.
There are a number on control mechanisms which make sure cells don’t grow out of control, if any of these many mechanisms fail in the trillions of cells in your body, you potentially get cancer.
Not all cancers are failures of the same cellular machinery. Not all cancers are equally treatable.
The question is how do you get a medicine or therapy to target only the bad cells but not the healthy cells?
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