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by domwood
5128 days ago
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No, it's no wonder drug, it's not a cure, it's a treatment. Yes, it probably will become redundant eventually, but as cancer's a genetic thing, it'll be on a patient by patient basis, that means even if a patient's cancer start to develop an immunity to the drug, it'll take a very long time for that immunity to be spread by reproduction, especially as people tend to get cancer after having children (it's far more common in later life after all, or don't have them after they are diagnosed. That means that it'll be useful for a long period of time for the majority of people. In the meantime, that gives science a chance to continue to develop the "next step", whatever that may be. And it's not the only drug of its kind, we've got to the point of being able to target individual cancers, so perhaps the research from this will have uses elsewhere. P.S. I'm not going overboard, cancer has done a damned good job of rampaging through my family, so I think I'm excused a little drama ;) |
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Eh? I guess "never" is a very long time. Prostate cancer isn't communicable, and while you may pass a propensity to get cancer to your offspring that's irrelevant to the treatment.