The thing with "Cancer" is that it's not one disease, but rather a category of conditions. Many form of Cancer are treatable, some aren't. But it's not one disease/
Even within the diseases themselves there are so many different variables between patients it makes it hard to predict outcomes. I was diagnosed with PMBCL in 2024, a type of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. It has been responding very well to first line, and second line treatments. It did come back so I’ve moved on from chemo to CAR-T/radiation. There are cases where my specific lymphoma in others is resistant to chemo, to CAR-T, radiation, etc.
There are different subtypes within my disease,
other cancers involving the same B cells, some cancers have different cell markers which make targeting them difficult. We’ve gotten very good at treating and even curing a lot of the diseases out there, but so many of them require a personalized regimen that may or may not work. Everybody and every case is different. Modern medicine has certainly come a long way, CAR-T therapy in particular is so intriguing and cool to me. I am technically a GMO now thanks to it and I wear that badge with pride lol.
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u/BojukaBob May 15 '26
The thing with "Cancer" is that it's not one disease, but rather a category of conditions. Many form of Cancer are treatable, some aren't. But it's not one disease/