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[โ€“] meliaesc@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Right now, the main option to "beat" cancer is to poison yourself until enough of the cancerous cells die, along with killing the normal healthy cells. Even then, that only works for certain types of cancer, and that's only if it is treated early enough.

https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/cancer-survival-rates

A cure would ideally work safely against all types and stages.

[โ€“] Devi@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

That's very simplistic, there's loads of cancer treatments, what you're describing is a kind of broad brush chemotherapy, but there's lots of more targeted versions, then loads of different pills and potions, immunotherapies, radiotherapies and the good old "cut the thing out" method.

Cancer treatment is the best funded area of medicine and there's loooads of advances going on all the time.