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

Question

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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Answer 1

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.