If there’s no cure to cancer then how does one become “cancer free” and how is that different from curing it?

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If there’s no cure to cancer then how does one become “cancer free” and how is that different from curing it?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

If you have cancer, it mean that you have genetics defect that your healthy cells will easily give rise to cancer again. “Cancer free” means that we had killed all abnormal cells that doing harm to you. But a lot of cancer progenitor exist in a state that indistinguishable from healthy stem cells, when these cell divides, one copy remain perfects but the other one has a slight defect that will eventually turn into tumor.

Anonymous 0 Comments

You had a cold once. You were sick and the virus reaked havoc but eventually you recovered and your body destroyed the virus. You are now “cold free” (free of the cold virus inside of the body).

There isn’t a shot or a pill you can take to prevent the cold ever coming back. (No cure)
It’s possible you can get the cold again.

Anonymous 0 Comments

There’s a lot of things that are cancer. Only some of them can be cured. So we have cures for the most cooperative cancers if we catch them early, but we don’t have a medicine we can give someone to safely get rid of all the cancer in their body no matter what kind it is.

Anonymous 0 Comments

cancer is just your own cells growing out of control… probably don’t want to know this but we get cancer constantly.. (or fairly often) but our white blood cells just attack and kill it and we are none the wiser.. cancer manifesting as a disease is when our immune system fails and exterior methods of eradication must occur.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Apparently if you Google cancer cures there was a couple at the turn of the 20th century. However, it’s a huge business.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Cancer is your own cells mutating unpredictably and out of control, and have evaded our immune system’s notice. Cures as we think of them in other infections are drugs designed to kill or stop the invading pathogen, like bacteria or parasites, but how do you kill you, without killing you? And how do you prepare such a treatment when literally every cancer is going to be unique, and even will change on its own in time? Because of this we don’t have an easy solution to cancer for the moment. Right now most of our solutions rely on physically cutting out or killing off the area where the tumor is to remove the mass of mutated cells so it can’t spread. Chemotherapy is a treatment designed to target and kill cells that multiply fast, like cancer cells, but they target other cells as collateral damage too.

Anonymous 0 Comments

we call it cancer after it goes a certain degree, before that everyone has “nano cancer”, but we fight it daily non stop thanks to other cells that kill the cancer/defective cells that refuse to die.

So even when you are cancer free your body is always and always will fight those kind of cells.

One example would be fighting pockets of guerrila fighters in a country, if you fail they grow in numbers and overthrow the gov.

Anonymous 0 Comments

A cure would be like a sniper, taking out the cancer with a very precise shot.

Treatments like radiotherapy or chemotherapy are more like just carpet bombing the whole area and hoping the body lasts longer than the cancer.

Anonymous 0 Comments

The cells are broken, deformed, when cancerous. A cure would fix the cells. Our treatments remove and/or kill the cells.

If you succumb to cancer its usually because the broken cells are replicated faster than they can be killed ir they relocated in the body to a place where they cant be removed.

Im not a doctor but this is my understanding.

Anonymous 0 Comments

There are treatments for various kinds of cancer – surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy are the main ones. And these treatments can sometimes cure SOME kind of cancers.

What we don’t have is a universal cure for ALL kinds of cancer.

Cancer is a catch all term for a class of disease. There are many types of cancers.