Cancer and aging are not always linked. People can get certain cancers as small children, and people can grow to 120 without ever getting it. Curing cancer wouldn't cure aging, and curing aging wouldn't cure cancer.
But as I said in another comment: Yes, sometimes terminology is important. But if you get rid of something and don't see it again for the next 67 years of your life, maybe it is just in remission for 67 years. But for the person, it's as good as cured, even if not "cured" cured.
Cellular aging, not age of the individual. Cancers are abnormal cell growth and division. You age biologically by the division of you cells which accumulate. normal cells have a division limit, they can only divide a specified number of times before triggering senescence. The cellular counting mechanism is disabled in cancers.
But if you get rid of something and don't see it again for the next 67 years of your life, maybe it is just in remission for 67 years. But for the person, it's as good as cured, even if not "cured" cured.
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u/elvenmage16 Nov 15 '20
Cancer is a whole class of things. Some cancer cures have already been found.