Pickledicklepoo
Pickledicklepoo t1_j3fqnth wrote
Reply to comment by PixelizedPlayer in New Study Uncovers Potential Target for Stopping 90% of Cancer Deaths by skraddleboop
Well, think about diabetes for example. It isn’t a death sentence because there are treatments and things you can do to manage how the condition progresses but if you don’t have access to those treatments it’s gonna be a bad time for your longevity. A cure would mean you get a treatment that means you no longer have diabetes and you no longer need to worry about managing it or taking regular treatments to keep it from progressing. Likewise we wouldn’t say we have cured a cancer until we know that it has been completely eliminated with the underlying mutation or trigger or cause so to speak repaired or removed. Even when we can no longer detect cancer in a persons body it is not called cured if it had spread throughout the body it’s simply called “no evidence of disease” because it is likely it will ultimately cause trouble elsewhere in the body. If cancer has not yet spread and is removed then in theory that would be a cure yes.
Pickledicklepoo t1_j3f7z56 wrote
Reply to comment by PixelizedPlayer in New Study Uncovers Potential Target for Stopping 90% of Cancer Deaths by skraddleboop
Yes which is why a treatment that prevents it from spreading and affecting quality of life in the first place to a significant degree would be a game changer
Pickledicklepoo t1_j3f28mk wrote
Reply to comment by PixelizedPlayer in New Study Uncovers Potential Target for Stopping 90% of Cancer Deaths by skraddleboop
Cancer just sitting there being cancer doesn’t make people die. Most people who get prostate cancer die with prostate cancer not from it for example. When cancer starts to spread around the body and make little bits of cancer all over the place, just growing and growing because that’s what cancer does….ultimately that’s what makes people die from it. The treatment for cancer is all basically different ways of trying to stop it from spreading, slow down the spreading, detect and treat the spreading for as long as possible, and treat the symptoms caused by the damage from the spreading.
If this concept ever bore fruit the idea would be basically just a super effective way of preventing the spreading before it can happen in the first place. So there wouldn’t be damage to fix or live with. There are many many many types of cancer which is why it’s such a big problem for humanity to solve. But if we ever one day discovered a common flaw in all cancers that we could solve and stop them from spreading then that would mean that cancer would change from being a life limiting condition to being more like a chronic medical condition that can be managed. There are lots of cancers that in the past 5-10 years have come leaps and bounds towards achieving this. CML is an example of a cancer we have been able to change into a mostly treatable chronic condition. It is not out of the realm of possibility that one day we will discover a puzzle piece that will allow us to replicate this success. That’s the dream anyways.
Pickledicklepoo t1_j35tf80 wrote
Reply to comment by Alexis_J_M in Where does all of the snot come from when you have a cold? by Dunkachin0
This is basically how this autistic girl made friends in university lolol
Pickledicklepoo t1_iwka3an wrote
Reply to comment by visualtim in World’s first stem cell treatment for spina bifida delivered during fetal surgery, in California. Three babies have been born after receiving the world’s first spina bifida treatment combining surgery with stem cells. by technofuture8
And here I am sliding them into a trash bag and then lobbing them into the placenta bucket in the placenta freezer so they can go to the placenta fire each day
Pickledicklepoo t1_j3hdip6 wrote
Reply to comment by PixelizedPlayer in New Study Uncovers Potential Target for Stopping 90% of Cancer Deaths by skraddleboop
Yes, however that might be a bit of a blurry line depending on if this is a vaccine you must get boosters for for the rest of your life or if it’s a single treatment.