Why is cancer so hard to cure? Will we ever find an infallible cure?
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Curing cancer is just like curing infections: some cells growing where they shouldn’t and they interfere with the body. You can’t find something to cure them all, because they are all different. They affect different parts of the body, grow at different speeds, respond to different medicines, have different impacts on the body.
Cancer’s even nastier, though. The body is slow to decide it’s not supposed to be there. It has ways of identifying bacteria and viruses, but cancer’s made up of your own cells, and it often doesn’t recognize that something’s gone wrong until the cancer has really gotten bad. Since cancer’s made of your own cells, it’s also true that things that kill cancer often kill your healthy cells too, which means cancer treatment can make you very sick.
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