Why is cancer such a difficult disease to cure?
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Because cancer isn’t really a single independent entity, which would be easy to target and fix. Cancer is a malfunction of the cell, causing the cell to replicate and spread in ways it’s not supposed to. Since these are “normal” cells, just acting improperly, that makes them hard to stop in a way that doesn’t hurt other non-malfunctioning cells. If cancer was some sort of completely unique and isolated type of organism, then it would be easier to formulate treatments and drugs to fight that specific entity. But since they originate from normal everyday cells it’s hard to differentiate amongst all the normal ones. It’s like trying to find the bad guys in a group of people when they are all wearing the same clothes.
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