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Will there ever be a cure for cancer?

>> No.4379749

Nope. /sci/ is lost and doomed to die.

>> No.4379753

Look up 'Whole-Body Interdiction of Lengthening of Telomeres'. It won't be a total cure, but it'll treat 90%+ of cancers (and consequently allow us to devote all of that research money to the other mechanism of cancer sustainment, ALT).

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4379755

>cell biology
>hard science
lol NOPE

>> No.4379759

>>4379755
Reported for pony.

>>>/mlp/

>> No.4379765

>>4379755
Reported for pony.

>>>/mlp/

>> No.4379768

>>4379746
cancer is the next step in human evolution
you are all trying to delay the inevitable

>> No.4379773

>>4379755
reported, enjoy your ban

>> No.4379781

>>4379755
>inane pony trolling
>hard science

ISHYGDDT

>> No.4379788

>>4379755
>posting ponies outside of >>>/mlp/
ishiggydiggy

Reported, enjoy your ban.

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4379792

>>4379781
>>4379773
>>4379765
>>4379759

>> No.4379794

>>4379768
I'm not sure how something that inevitably kills its host is the next step in evolution, but i wish this was true

>> No.4379796

>>4379755

Hard vs Soft, not much difference in your case, I'd imagine.

>> No.4379799

>>4379792
reported for frog

go back to >>>/frog/

>> No.4379801

>>4379792
>inane frog trolling
>hard science

lol nope

>> No.4379810

>>4379799
reported for fag

go back to /fag/

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>>4379799
>>4379801

>> No.4379823

>>4379810
reported for homophobia

>>4379814
reported for posting Costanza outside of a dedicated /tv/ Seinfeld thread

>> No.4379825

I doubt there will ever be a "cure for cancer" because there are as many unique cancers as there are cancer patients. I recall seeing that what oncologists call the "cure for cancer" would be an effective schema allowing them to decide WHICH medication would work best for a patient.

>> No.4380001

I don't think there will be a single cure for all types of cancer for a long time. I think gene therapy to replace oncogenes with safer ones will be the eventual cure but it's a long time before we wipe every oncogene out of existence.

>> No.4381488

I think there will be in the form of nanotechnology, small robots detecting cancerous cells and destroying them

>> No.4381494

Will there ever be a cure for virus?

>> No.4381500

Will they ever release episode 3 ?

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>>4381500

>> No.4381532

>>4379794
No, well, that was a bullshit answer. It's best to hide/ignore it completly.

You can spot them easily if you recall definitions of the buzzwords they are throwing around - and then dismiss them accordingly.

>> No.4381555

A hot topic in medical bioengineering at the moment is using specialized viruses against cancer cells. These viruses use specific proteins only expressed in cancer cells to recognize, infect and destroy the cancer cells. However, these viruses also trigger a response from the immune system itself, which may have bad effects on health.

Something already used experimentally, is extracting white blood cells from the patients own blood, and then genetically modify them to recognize a specific cancer protein, before putting them back in. This is so effective, that it could actually damage healthy cells that also express the protein on a far lower scale.

>> No.4381570

There was actually a recent test by a group of scientists to determine the possibility of developing cancer vaccines (I.E. Getting the immune system to target cancer cells) that was quite successful. It was only a proof of concept; hardly what you'd call definitive proof that it is feasible but it's a step in the right direction.

That, combined with the ability to test blood for cancer cells (CTC-HD test) that's showing good signs and the ability to monitor blood via implant, suggests to me that we might soon have very accurate, reliable and high quality methods by which to detect and combat cancer. Not just one kind but most of them.

The only issue is tumors in the brain, which the blood-brain barrier is a bit of a jerk about.

>> No.4381574

>>4381570

>The only issue is tumors in the brain, which the blood-brain barrier is a bit of a jerk about.

True, but that barrier exists for a reason. It's also one of the reasons that brain tumors are relatively rare, along with the fact that neurons hardly divide.

>> No.4381576

>>4381574

It's a handy thing to have, no doubt, but it can be problematic sometimes.

I'm not sure how long it'll be until medical nanobots are available (I know we have MRI-guided microbots but that's hardly the same thing), but they're pretty much the only thing I think of in optimistic terms when it comes to beating brain cancer 100%.

>> No.4381580

No. Earth's natural way of maintaining the population of Earth. And if there ever is a cure, another disease will show up. But we need more. It's not enough.

>> No.4381589

>>4381580

cancer differs from other diseases that it's not caused by a pathogenic organism, but by a de novo mutation in our body.