Why is cancer so hard to cure? Will we ever find an infallible cure?
In: 2088
The biggest challenge is that cancer cells are human cells. They’re human cells that are malfunctioning.
If I have a bacterial infection, I need to find a way to kill bacteria without killing the human. This isn’t too tough.
If I have cancer, I need to find a way to kill human without killing human. This is very hard.
Moreso, I need to find a way to *reliably* kill human without killing human. This is ‘multi-billion dollars of research’ hard.
[Relevant XKCD ](https://xkcd.com/1217/)
Side note: this is why chemotherapy can have such severe side effects: it’s killing human, and not killing human (but making human very unwell because it still has to kill human)
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