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 no single, cure-all for cancer, mainly because there’s no single cancer. Cancer is the name of over 100 different diseases that are all caused by uncontrolled multiplication of cells.

There are however treatments for individual types of cancer with varying degrees of success.