Why is it taking so long time find a cure, or even an effective treatment that doesn’t destroy your body
it’s literally destroying my family person by person, this is half question and half venting.
In: Biology
I’m so sorry you are struggling with this. It’s truly a terrible disease.
The short answer to the question is because there are so many different types of cancer. It all comes down to what DNA mutation is causing the cancer cells to grow out of control. For example sometimes the cell’s ability to check itself for errors becomes compromised and other times normal cell growth genes get a mutation that makes them overactive. There are a lot of different causes and the most effective therapy would be to target the specific cause.
So the question is how do you kill the cancer cells and not the person. A lot of therapy is just carpet bombing all highly active cells, though this often includes normally active cells and we get a lot of nasty side effects. If you know the cause there are more targeted therapies and there is a lot of research in these, but you would have to find one for each different type of cancer.
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