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Can you stop with the nonsense that has nothing to do with this thread? 
Posting this in both AI Insights and this thread.
AI can now design phages, some of which are quite effective. It’s looking great for healthcare. I think it’ll be quite useful, and phages might integrate themselves fully into healthcare (they’re usually not used). Could certainly help with fighting, say, drug-resistant tuberculosis.
Thruul_Mcgon wrote:
Did you know, cancer actually has a cure. Radiotherapy. Gamma rays from Cobalt-60 are used to kill tumors.
It does, yeah, but when people talk about the cure for cancer, they usually mean a generally applicable treatment that can eliminate the vast majority of malignant cancers, whether it’s confined to a single organ or not.
The word “cancer” is just some kind of vague term that encompasses hundreds of different diseases.
Thruul_Mcgon wrote:
#280 it's basically the same disease. A cell doesn't repair or apoptosis properly, so there build up cells that use absurd amounts of glucose but don't help the body.
Yeah, that’s part of the problem, but we have cures for some cancers and not for others. They all have some fundamental attributes, but using those fundamental attributes to treat them is a whole different story. I really don’t think you can just simplify oncology like that.
I’m just happy mine’s gone. ALL stretched hours into months.
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Radiotherapy is unfortunately not a "cure" for cancer in the ideal sense. It's a treatment that can be effective for some cancers. That being said, it can be part of a completely successful treatment in more fortunate cases.
Cancers are diseases with similar characteristics - uncontrolled cell replication - but vary a great deal. Certainly enough to doubt the possibility of a cure for them all.
Oct 4, 2025
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#275
AG120502 wrote:
Thruul_Mcgon wrote:
Did you know, cancer actually has a cure. Radiotherapy. Gamma rays from Cobalt-60 are used to kill tumors.
It does, yeah, but when people talk about the cure for cancer, they usually mean a generally applicable treatment that can eliminate the vast majority of malignant cancers, whether it’s confined to a single organ or not.
The word “cancer” is just some kind of vague term that encompasses hundreds of different diseases.
they already found a cure for cancer
BurgerEatersInc wrote:
AG120502 wrote:
Thruul_Mcgon wrote:
Did you know, cancer actually has a cure. Radiotherapy. Gamma rays from Cobalt-60 are used to kill tumors.
It does, yeah, but when people talk about the cure for cancer, they usually mean a generally applicable treatment that can eliminate the vast majority of malignant cancers, whether it’s confined to a single organ or not.
The word “cancer” is just some kind of vague term that encompasses hundreds of different diseases.
they already found a cure for cancer
They must possess incredible control over the human genome, then, being at least half a century ahead of the rest of us. They obviously don’t care about money, because a cure for cancer would make you rich (an understatement).
And you, because of plot convenience, must be one of the incredibly insightful characters who can see them.
It can be argued that the lack of a cure for cancer is making people rich.
On a macro level, a cure would mean patients are good and they never come back for more treatment. The medical industry as a whole would lose money on a cure for cancer. There is no financial incentive for organizations, and an individual looking to personally profit would almost certainly not have the resources necessary to do research on their own. Government funding towards cancer research is essential. Some things do not have financial incentives, only human incentives.
Radiohead used to be my favourite band.