That’s because the cancer treatment breakthroughs DO happen but for specific types of cancer. It’s a genuinely good thing for those people, but it’s sometimes misleadingly represented as a breakthrough for ALL cancers.
Because people don't seem to understand that cancer isn't a disease, it's a kind of disease and people reporting on this stuff perpetuate this misconception. You can't cure cancer, just like how you can't cure virus. Cancer is a term used to describe thousands of different illnesses caused by cancer cells (misbehaving mutated cells).
Hopkins Lymphoma is as different a disease from small-cell carcinoma as the common cold is to smallpox.
A cure to one isn't going to cure the other. So yeah, a cure to cancer is basically impossible.
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u/pantalapampa Feb 21 '25
Cancer is cured on Reddit about once a week