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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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.
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