/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.11940810]

We’re never going to have a surefire cure for cancer, are we.

[Anonymous No.11940818]

Nah, but we'll get to the point where we'll detect most cancers early enough to treat it properly.
The real priority would be to remove all man-made carcinogens from our environment and living spaces.

[Anonymous No.11940822]

Hopefully not

[Anonymous No.11940826]

>>11940810
200 years ago we still thought diseases were able to be cured with draining peoples blood, humourism was accepted as medical truth, and used alcohol was used as an anesthetic. It's ignorant to assume that medicine won't keep advancing (even if its not as fast as you would hope)

[Anonymous No.11940831]

>>11940826
Pure reddit post.

[Anonymous No.11940836]

>>11940826

[Anonymous No.11940837]

>>11940831
>reasonable explanations are reddit
pure /pol/ response

[Anonymous No.11940843]

>>11940837
>Look at my comeback.
>I'm smart

[Anonymous No.11940848]

>>11940837
The post is not a "reasonable explanation", it is a reddit post because you seem to place heavy value on the advancement of "Science" as a construct instead of having any useful insight into the field at all. Your Scientism is what makes your post a shitty reddit-post.

[Anonymous No.11940860]

>>11940810
>cure for cancer
You realize there are different types of cancer right? "Cure for cancer" is such a shitty blanket term that normies who didn't pass/take grade 12 biology use.

[Anonymous No.11940862]

>>11940848
Okay, ignore my reasonable explanation and read a couple scientific papers and articles about how cancer treatments have become more and more effective over time
>https://edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfile.php/118662/mod_resource/content/2/hystory_cancer_2.pdf
>https://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/68/21/8643.short
>https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3322/caac.21349
>https://www.nature.com/articles/nrc1279

[Anonymous No.11940901]

No, unless we can solve the problem of overpopulation.

[Anonymous No.11940934]

>>11940848
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peto%27s_paradox
It's not at all unreasonable to think that a general cure for cancer is possible.

[Anonymous No.11941064]

>>11940810
>send tiny controllable robot into body
>hunt down cancer cell
>kill it with laser

[Anonymous No.11941069]

>>11940810
>surefire
how to pronounce it? like sure+fire or like surf-eer?

[Anonymous No.11941142]

>>11941069
It’s sure + fire.

>>11941064
I feel like it can’t be this easy... surely someone would have done it by now 0_o