Comment on Maybe there was a cure for human cancer, but it didn't work at all in mice.

• Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Se we will become cancer

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  • SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maybe the real cancer is the friends we made along the way

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The reality is that even if there was a magic bullet for cancer, all cancer, it would only extend lives a few years.

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    • Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How does that work?

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  • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    well no, they kill cancer in petri dishes

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    • Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It was a joke about selection pressure.

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• BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I believe the vast majority of cultivated human cells are cancerous cells anyway.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks

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  • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    when researching cancer drugs, yeah

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