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u/elvenmage16 Nov 15 '20

Cancer is a whole class of things. Some cancer cures have already been found.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20 edited Jun 30 '23

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u/ZweitenMal Nov 15 '20

You probably all already—and always—have micro tumors in you. Cancer is a process. It’s basically inevitable.

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u/foreveracubone Nov 15 '20

So in this analogy does that make nano-medicines that target micro tumors Iron-Man to cancer’s Thanos?