Cancer is not a single diseases, it’s many. And yes, many types of cancer can be treated successfully today, people’s lives are saved, and new, functioning drugs are created constantly. Progress is HUGE.
? There’s advances all the time.
Yeah, the last few friends/family I know who were diagnosed with cancer in the 2020’s were all treated with the updated standard of care, using drugs/treatments/procedures developed in the previous decade. Even procedures that were developed a while back, like bone marrow transplants to treat leukemia, have been totally transformed to be less invasive, more targeted, more effective. The doctors also tend to choose the treatment based on certain genetic profiles of the patient or the tumor itself, with fewer side effects or higher effectiveness or both.
You probably live in some sort of a bubble as there’s news about new medications and treatments more than ever.
I understand that those are meant to maintain it. I meant actually curing all types of cancer as a whole.
To put a slightly different spin on what the other guys said:
Saying “cure all cancer” is like saying “cure all germs”. There’s just so many kinds and causes. It’s not one thing.
Because you don’t look for it, you don’t find it. Little advancements don’t make it to general news outlets. When you hear big news like that doctor that cured pancreatic cancer, you can assume it’s being blown out of proportion until proven otherwise.
Every time you hear that they developed a drug that selectively kills cancer cells in vitro, that’s an incremental step. When you hear that someone successfully cured a specific type of cancer in rats, that’s an incremental step.