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> I detest articles that use the word "cure" and "cancer" in the title. They are without fail so breathless about the clichéd achievement that they are exploiting in the headline that they either fail to acknowledge the real magnitude of the problem or gloss over it with practiced sleaze (not sure which happened to the writers here). > There is no "magic bullet" that cures every single cancer, just like there is no "magic antibiotic"

This.

People need to stop thinking cancer as a single disease, but as a constellation of disease. Just like you cannot "cure" the Internet from computer viruses with a magic program, you cannot cure cancer in with an unique solution.




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