Why is cancer so hard to cure? Will we ever find an infallible cure?
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Usually, cells that cause disease are very different to your cells. Bacterial cells have very different characteristics to human cells and so we can use treatments that exploit those differences to only eradicate bacteria.
However, cancer results from mutated human cells, so cancer cells and human cells are overall very similar. Therefore, methods that eradicate cancer cells will often also eradicate human cells and we must rule them out. That makes it very hard to find a treatment.
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