Why do people die from cancer even though they are receiving treatment?
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The treatments we have just aren’t that good. Cancer is a difficult disease to treat because cancer cells are human cells, it is very difficult to develop drugs which only kill cancer cells without damaging healthy tissue so a lot of cancer treatment boils down to trying to kill the cancer before you kill the patient. And even if you kill 99% of the cancer, it can grow back, and there’s no real way to know if all of the cancer is gone.
All cancers are different, some are easily treated if they are caught early enough and some cancers are so slow growing that you’re likely to die of something else before the cancer kills you. But others are so aggressive and hard to treat that there is almost no chance of survival.
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