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Originally Posted by kstar
This always makes me laugh when people don't specify things. First off, what cancer? Rat cancer? Dog cancer? Human cancer? Once you specify species, you need to specify which type: melanomas? pancreatic? lung? brain? myomas? lymphomas? cervical? What if you cured one that already had a cure? Second, what if you found a cure that caused something else, or a cure with a high death rate?
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well cancer, and clearly this is me oversimplifying, is caused by the abnormalities and transformations of cells, growing/duplicating faster, or in a way than they should. someone who is medically versed can answer this better, but i would think while there may not be a one-cure-fits-all fix, different types of cancer have common traits so their cures would be related.
and why specify? if icelandicelf had said "find a cure for breast cancer," one could easily argue, "well why not
lung cancer? or
skincancer?" what determines which cancer one would want to find a cure for? who ranks which is worth finding a cure for more?
(see how im nitpicking? yeah, thats kinda what youre doing.)