JuniorsCrackDealer@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days agoMaybe there was a cure for human cancer, but it didn't work at all in mice.message-squaremessage-square91fedilinkarrow-up1320arrow-down116
arrow-up1304arrow-down1message-squareMaybe there was a cure for human cancer, but it didn't work at all in mice.JuniorsCrackDealer@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days agomessage-square91fedilink
minus-squarebaggachipz@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up16·2 days agoThe whole concept of “curing cancer” is such a trope. Cancer is a condition, and it annoys the fuck out of me that people treat it as one disease like measles or the flu.
minus-squarejet@hackertalks.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 hours agoThere are some unifying theories of cancer that do kinda make it into one thing: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2015.00043 I.e. the Warburg effect, and damaged mitochondria being st the root of all cancers. In your example the flu is not just one thing either, it’s a group of viruses that broadly have the same symptoms
Cancer isn’t one thing.
The whole concept of “curing cancer” is such a trope. Cancer is a condition, and it annoys the fuck out of me that people treat it as one disease like measles or the flu.
There are some unifying theories of cancer that do kinda make it into one thing: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2015.00043
I.e. the Warburg effect, and damaged mitochondria being st the root of all cancers.
In your example the flu is not just one thing either, it’s a group of viruses that broadly have the same symptoms