Why is cancer such a difficult disease to cure?
In: Biology
Cancer is, in a very ELI5 way, your cells that multiply without control. Your body is very special, but not flawless, so very rarely, there are cells that dont die when they should.
The treatment is to kill all the very numerous cells that multiply a lot, and thats the problem, that the cure cannot “differenciate” between what is cancer and what is not
Thats also the reason why people with cancer in hospital (in treatment) are bald and so palid, blood and hair cells are one of the fastest multiplying kind of cells, and the “chemo” or “radio” therapy arent that precise and cant know which are the “healthy” cells and which are the cancerous ones
Becayse of that, cancer is so hard to cure, because if you are too “aggressive” killing the cancerous cells, you might kill the person, because the “cure wasnt precise”.
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