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tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Right? Not all cancer is the same on a cellular level and to think there would be a vaccine against “cellular mutation” as a broad topic would be asinine. Especially since a lot of those mutations are from environmental exposure.

I’m certainly not one to dismiss scientific progress, but call me skeptical about the 1,000th cure/treatment/vaccine for “cancer” announcement this year.

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SCB@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Not all cancer is the same on a cellular level

I’m certainly not one to dismiss scientific progress, but call me skeptical about the 1,000th cure/treatment/vaccine for “cancer” announcement this year.

One imagined there are many cure/treatment/vaccines because there are many different cancers

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- tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You missed the point of the comment.
  
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- Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yet they all scream “we have found a cure for cancer!” As if they have found one for all of them.
  
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  - SCB@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    They have literally found a cure for cancer. This is one application.
    
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crashfrog@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
But cancers aren’t generally random mutations; they’re specific mutations to specific genes (oncogenes) that tend to be associated with cell replication and planned cell death.

So it actually does make sense that you can target cancer mutations, since you’re looking at a fairly small set of mutations (about 300, I think.) In any case, the body destroying its own pre-cancerous cells is an important mechanism for day-to-day cancer prevention that’s already working in people, so it makes sense to try to strengthen and broaden the response.

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