Isn’t it strange that there is no cure for cancer?

There are more than 200 types of cancer, OP.

There is also more than 200 types of common cold and we cant even cure that.

And they haven’t cured a damn 1 of them, r1.

Don’t anti-virals work to shorten a cold? And how sinuous cure something that lasts 3 days on its own. Any treatment would take 2-3 days.

Republicans have gutted public research. But these billion dollar universities have some explaining to do.

There is no cure, but in many instances, cancer be treated via radiation and chemotherapy and caused to go into remission, which could last for years. And yes, the cancer could return, but it also may stay in remission depending what type of cancer and when it was caught.

Basal cell carcinoma (skin cancer) can be burnt off or cut out never to return. Melanoma in situ (on the surface) can be cut out. However, full melanoma that has gone below layers of the skin can be fatal.

I think in general, cancer now has about a 50% cure rate. As apposed to the 70's when it was only about 20%. But it really varies on what type and where and if you caught it early.

It can’t be that hard.

R9 has never taken a high school science class.

This is not true. Vaccines have been developed for specific types of Cancer that are precipitated by viral infections. (HPV) Immunotherapy has come along way in both treating and heading off certain kinds of Cancer from developing. Finally, the medical technology of which none may dare say it's name (CRISPR technology which industrial nations have been dangerously fucking around with for years, and exactly what the Chinese were doing when Covid broke out) will bring major breakthroughs in Cancer prevention in years and decades to come. It just took a lot of time to develop new medical advances and techniques to give us the ability to effectively make significant advances.

There are loads of types, plus they're very adaptive.

My dad had terminal cancer, but he was offered chemotherapy to shrink his tumours to give him some more time. He had 6 rounds and the tumours shrunk, all was looking great. So he had a few more rounds, but the tumours didn't continue to shrink because they got resistant to it. So then he switched to a different type of chemo (the understanding being they'd respond again to a type of chemo they were unfamiliar with). Wrong. They actually started to grow again and so he stopped treatment as all avenues had been exhausted. He passed away a few weeks later.

Cancer is a shit disease which is very complex unfortunately.

I’m sorry that happened to him, R12.

It's more lucrative for it to continue existing.

Isnt it strange that we don’t have full time world peace. That we still have world hunger. That we still have STDs. With all these genus men and women at all these medical schools it’s a wonder we still have problems.

40-50% of all cancers are preventable. But that would mean a life style change. Better we spend our time wondering why science has not found a cure.

Why haven't they found a cure for death?

R14 is right. Science (as in drug companies) has found many treatments but far fewer cures because once you're cured, there's no longer a need for the treatment they make and you pay for.

R17 seems to inform us that there is indeed a cure but the evil capitalists have hidden the cure in a big safe and they are keeping the cure a secret.

And absolutely no one talks about the fucking safe with all the cures.

I’m old enough to remember when the word “cancer” was whispered.

Op is one of those people Donald trump loves so much

Cancer is cured all the time when it’s detected early. Breast cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer…many people with early stages of these cancers are treated with surgery and go about living their lives normally.

R21 Unfortunately many cancers recur.

R16 Cause death isn't a disease. It's a blessing

Many don’t.

Cancer is very hard to catch early. That's the real issue. It's very easy to treat when it can be just cut out. By the time there are symptoms, it often has spread. And the older one gets, the more things go wrong that one gets used to feeling, which often means a delay in diagnosis even when there are symptoms.

I'm surprised they haven't cured death yet.

Death is just nature's way of telling you to slow down.

Have they looked into bleach? Deborah, can you see about that?

A number of cancers have great treatments. Others dont

There's a cure for cancer, there are several surgeries that remove tumors and there's also chemotherapy, I know someone who had brain cancer in 1991 or 1992, she was a child back then, she's a mother of three children now.

Actually - researchers are finally changing their approach to 'cancer' - which was treated all the same way years ago.

Now they are treating each cancer as being unique - and it's creating new treatments and procedures instead of the same chemo treatment.

A friend works at a bio-tech firm in SoCal - her company has been successful at trial-testing new specific cancer drugs that do NOT need chemo. I don't completely understand it - but the medication changes the RNA of white blood cells to attack cancer. Apparently, white blood cells don't identify cancerous cells and work to attack and stop the spreading.

They're having 98% success rates. But it's just 2 specific cancers so far - and the medications are different for each cancer.

So I think the reason why we weren't successful in eradicating cancer was due to treating all cancer the same way. We're breaking out with a new mindset now and the future looks pretty bright!

Not sure about pancreatic cancer though - that one's a death sentence.

See this here, most people survive cancer, five year survival is even better. Much more than 50% thank you

a plant based diet, not smoking, barely drinking will prevent 90 percent of cancers.

No not 90%

R34, totally 90% or even more. So many cancers are caused by the meat we eat, smoking, and drinking.

I'm a vegetarian non smoking alcoholic. That's 2 out of 3. Almost...

R5, the world doesn’t revolve around America. Other countries haven’t cured it either. Stop blaming the U.S.

R33, that’s bullshit. Most cancers are genetic.

We lost 4 years under trump. Everything went backwards actually. With all the ant vax propaganda coming g from the bully pulpit.

AI is already detecting breast cancer 4 years before it’s detected.

R39 You know that there are scientists outside of US. Why do some of you have to insert Trump in every single conversation, most of which have nothing to do with him? So lame.

R33 your 90%+ is a total guess . And not a good one. The professional experts who actually study this say somewhere between 30%-40% or so of cancers could be prevented. Smoking, eating, drinking, fucking lifestyle kind of related cancers.

Absolutely no one is saying 90% except for the DL expert.

I agree, OP. When the shit hit the fan with COVID, it took less than a year for researchers to come up with vaccines and preventatives. AIDS and other STDs are completely preventable. The common cold will always be with us because there are so many strains. BUT why hasn't even one form of cancer been resolved with a cure -- uterine, liver, kidney, brain, whatever. Is it because there's more money in research than in pharmaceuticals?

R35, please link to statistics on that implausible number you so smugly assert.

I would believe 60%, but not 90%. Nuh-uh.

Well, OP, your example proves that the "Silicon Valley" leaders and medical geniuses of the world have done nothing for malignant retardation, either.

[quote]We have like 50 medical schools in the US alone.

Counting DOs, there are 190+ medical schools in the USA, genius/troll/cunt.

There is but of course big pharma and healthcare companies don’t want it.

R44 he can look but there will be no US govt or serious estimate showing 90%. Not remotely close.