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"Cure for cancer" is so poorly defined and misinterpreted.
- Cancer isn't like influenza; it's your cells, just behaving badly.
- It's not one disease; melanoma is as different from glioma as your elbow is from your brain.
- Cancer is built into our biology.
- Cancer isn't like influenza; it's your cells, just behaving badly.
- It's not one disease; melanoma is as different from glioma as your elbow is from your brain.
- Cancer is built into our biology.
The better our cancer testing gets, the fuzzier the line between pre-cancer and cancer. Our cells are constantly moving on a continuum between normal and cancerous, being destroyed by internal or external regulation, and sometimes just failing to lead to tumors.
So "Cure for Cancer" has the same sense to me as:
"Cure for Crime" or
"Cure for Car Failure" or
"Cure for Poverty".
We could have highly effective therapies (and we do), but I would always hesitate to call them "cures" unless we can agree to what that word means.
"Cure for Crime" or
"Cure for Car Failure" or
"Cure for Poverty".
We could have highly effective therapies (and we do), but I would always hesitate to call them "cures" unless we can agree to what that word means.
