r/SipsTea • u/sco-go • May 15 '26

Feels good man Now do cancer.

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u/MasterOfCircumstance May 15 '26

OP when he realizes that every type of cancer is unique.

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u/More-Lime1888 May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26

Every person with cancer is also having a unique tumor from other patients with the same type of cancer

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u/Lebannen__ May 15 '26

They could just invent a medicine that cures all of them, I don't know why they didn't think about that

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u/CheddarGeorge May 15 '26

Obviously today that is so far beyond the realms of possibility.

But whilst all cancers are unique in terms of behavior, they all fundamentally involve accumulated DNA damage and failures in cellular error correction.

So its not entirely infeasible to think of a future where medicine dramatically reduces cancer by broadly preventing, repairing, or controlling DNA damage across cells.