Why is cancer so hard to cure? Will we ever find an infallible cure?
In: 2088
Cancer is not a virus , or a bacteria. It’s your own body mutating and growing out of control.
It can be caused by those things, but the idea of “curing” cancer is like “curing” your skin from growing anymore. Just imagine you’d like one foot, and only one foot, to stop growing when you’re a teenager.
How would you go about that? You’d have to start messing with your DNA, probably cause a bunch of cellular damage with chemicals, or heck, we could cut the foot off and that’d stop it for sure!
That’s the same approach as to cancer. It’s a living part of you, just growing out of control. There isn’t going to be a “cure” as much as there will be a “method to removing mutated cells from healthy cells reliably.”
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