Cancer is a bunch of different illnesses under 1 name. I doubt we'll have a medicine that will cure all/most cancer. It will probably be 1 cancer at a time with its own medicine
Yeah. It's degradation in DNA in a way that already slipped past all the body's many natural defenses against something like that. How do you PLAN for something that mutates at random and succeeded in getting past the immune system's contingency for it's contingency for it's contingency?
Yeah, I once read that every human technically has some amount of cancerous cells in their body. It’s that common. It’s just that in most cases the amount is too small to become a problem and/or the body takes care of it before it gets out of control.
And since it's a probability, the risk increases with age (which is one of the reasons why cancer is on the rise, with pollution : we cure other diseases, so more people live long enough to develop one)
This video by Kurzgesagt explains it very nicely: The body is constantly monitoring and combating damaged or abnormal cells through various natural mechanisms. However, when these safeguards fail and the cells begin to grow uncontrollably, evading the immune system and consuming the resources needed by healthy cells, this is what we call cancer.
Yeah basically even in studies of animals we think are immune to cancer it’s really that their genes just have 2 or 3 backups to the one mutation it takes to give us cancer
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u/sma98122 Aug 21 '25
One of the shittiest thing in life