Is cancer so “uncurable” we only hope to extend the patient’s life and not cure it completely?
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Most things in medicine are merely managed rather than “cured.” Cancer is unique because in theory if you remove all the cancerous cells you would be cured. Unfortunately there’s very few cancers that can be detected and completely removed from your body. Later stages of cancer mean that cancerous cells have spread beyond the first tumor, at which point it’s basically whack-a-mole trying to stop cancer and keep the patient alive.
Modern technology is pretty incredible however, and a bunch of recent advances have made many more cancers and stages survivable.
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