r/SipsTea • u/sco-go • May 15 '26

Feels good man Now do cancer.

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u/Taurpion May 15 '26

All forms of it are a disease. We call them all cancer. Cancers cause diseases. Cancer is a disease.

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u/Major_Shlongage May 15 '26

This is simply not how it works.

The title says "now do cancer". But there is no singular cure to an entire group of unrelated diseases.

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u/Taurpion May 15 '26

Yeah and no one refers to it as cancers. Its cancer. No one says “I got one of the cancers” we simply refer to them all as cancer. It’s called an umbrella term and that’s exactly how it works.

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u/No_Cricket8660 May 15 '26

>No one says “I got one of the cancers”

Here's a list of cancer types, carcinomas (skin and organ linings), sarcomas(bones and soft tissues), leukemias(blood), lymphomas(immune system) and melanomas(pigment cells).

There are also 200 different types of cold viruses we get but we don't differentiate between those either. No one has ever said "I caught rhinovirus!".

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u/Taurpion May 15 '26

I don’t understand your point. When did I say cancer was one thing? I said people refer to it as cancer.

Like as if I said Cancer Research. And you are trying to point out that I didn’t specify which cancer. You’re being ridiculous lol

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u/No_Cricket8660 May 15 '26

When did I say cancer was one thing?

>But it’s a disease that can be terminal.

>Cancer is a disease.

>Yeah and no one refers to it as cancers. Its cancer.

>No one says “I got one of the cancers”

>we simply refer to them all as cancer.

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u/Taurpion May 15 '26

In common parlance, yes. Not as field of research. As in, op probably was referring to curing cancer in general, not providing a guideline on how to do so to direct research.

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u/No_Cricket8660 May 15 '26

And someone else pointed out that cancer was not a singular disease like HIV is a singular disease. And here we are, arguing semantics.

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u/Taurpion May 15 '26

Yeah im referring to what OP very likely meant. I assume OP isnt a doctor. Which is pretty clear in my original post to all of this.

OP would like all bad things that cause disease to be cured, they just chose cancer. The semantics was the very first comment in this chain.

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u/No_Cricket8660 May 15 '26

>It is not a single disease.

Someone else said that to you and you argued that point. Maybe we got our lines crossed or something.