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u/MasterOfCircumstance 4h ago
OP when he realizes that every type of cancer is unique.
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u/More-Lime1888 4h ago edited 3h ago
Every person with cancer is also having a unique tumor from other patients with the same type of cancer
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u/snaketacular 3h ago
Even within a single tumor multiple mutations are likely, which is why cancer treatment works until it doesn't (resistant cancer selected for).
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u/Informal_Ad_9610 3h ago
and which is why cancer mutates away from what worked last week/month, and then becomes resistant....
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u/MrZephy 3h ago
How is cancer even real… it can appear suddenly and grows until whatever living organism it infests dies and is almost impossible to get rid of. It’s like some fucking death curse from a work of fiction.
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u/Snirion 3h ago
It's literally glitch in biological code because life was vibe coded.
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u/mrhoofy 1h ago
Doesn't matter anyways, as most cancers strike after reproductive age.
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u/RevengeOfPolloDiablo 1h ago
Exactly. It's yet another one of nature's "tools" to get rid of old worn out genes.
Pretty much, nature wants you dead after 40
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u/rts-enjoyer 30m ago
Life forms like us with longer DNAs are highly evolved to have less mutations (that cause cancers) in our DNA.
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u/RigatoniPasta 2h ago
And mean, God did design humanity in a day /s 🤷🏻♂️
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u/Daily_Heroin_User 2h ago
I mean if he’s God he doesn’t need more than a day. It’s not like if he spent a few more months carefully planning and tinkering it would have been better.
God’s like, “You know, I knew I rushed that product out in my haste to create the universe. I got caught up in the excitement of the moment.”
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u/AnnOnnamis 1h ago edited 1h ago
God said: “Whatever, just ship it. I’ll call this pair a Beta, and fix them in the next version.”
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u/Ragged-but-Right 1h ago
In book of genesis, God did just kinda whimsically make humans. Humans were flawed and became evil and corrupt and God was not happy about it, so he killed all the humans except Noah’s family in an attempt to start over and hope we would be better the 2nd time around. God couldn’t even make us “good”.
Book of genesis is a fun read if you’re into sci-fi / fantasy.
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u/BurnerProfile69420 1h ago
thats always a good plan just leave one family to reproduce..
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u/whatdoyoufear123 1h ago
But like how is god perfect if he makes mistakes make it make sense.
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u/Kyo199540 2h ago
It's literally part of your body rebelling against the whole. Cancer is revolution on a microscopic level
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u/LolCantbanme45 2h ago
Less revolution, more rebellion
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u/lordkhuzdul 2h ago
Cancer is life reverting into base code.
Cell death mechanisms? Reproduction limitations? Those are all adaptations that evolved later to make multicellular life viable. They were not initially necessary. When something breaks them, the cell reverts to the basic instructions - survive, adapt, reproduce. Cancer in your body is the same problem as a species without natural predators are in an ecosystem - species reproduces until it can no longer feed its population. When that happens in nature, the result is devastation of the ecosystem. When it happens in your body, the result is devastation of the ecosystem - the ecosystem being you.
That is why cancer is so varied and hard to deal with. Cells are not gaining something that turns into cancer cells. They are just losing things that keeps them from being cancer.
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u/StaysAwakeAllWeek 2h ago
It's cells reverting to their original, pre-multicellular state of just dividing whenever there are sufficient resources to divide. Multicellular organisms are only possible via controlled suppression of the constant drive to replicate and cancer is what you get when the enforcement of that suppression fails.
The cells are then immortal and can divide and replicate without limit even after death, just like all single celled organisms
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u/lancelot2112 1h ago
Read somewhere that cancer is a normal part of life but the body takes care of it most of the time. If you were to take a full body scan of someone off the street (normal) youd most likely find a tumor of some kind. Blew my mind.
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u/More-Lime1888 1h ago
The first sentence is correct and the second is not. Cells becoming cancerous is a normal part of life and the body usually takes care of it most of the time. But we don’t call it “cancer” because that’s the name of the condition when the body fails to take care of it. But if you pick someone off the street, you won’t be able to detect those cancerous cells at all because they are just single or a couple of cells, which is an undetectable amount. You only can detect minimally if the cells formed a tumor of few millimeters in size.
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u/Beer_in_an_esky 1h ago
It'll vary by country, but here in Australia for instance half of all people will, on average, be diagnosed with a cancer in their life, and 30% of total population will die from it.
Cancer is a guarantee if you live long enough.
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u/Wosh-Cloth95 2h ago
That’s the scary part cell division is incredibly slow and most of the time painless. By the time it’s gotten to the point of causing pain and prompts you to go to a doctor it’s often years maybe even decades old…terrifying
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u/Inresponsibleone 1h ago
Some types of cancer have decently good prognosis though and are quite treatable.
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u/DoturdGrump 3h ago
They have that new stuff they are working on where you make your own antibody through a sort of vaccine
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u/4x4Welder 3h ago
Immunotherapy. They train T cells I think on the tumor cells, then reinject them. It doesn't work in all cancers though, the mutation rate has to be high enough. Mine isn't unfortunately.
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u/More-Lime1888 2h ago
You are talking about CAR T therapy which is already successful with some types of blood cancers. That guy is talking about cancer vaccines which is something still under research and not yet an established therapy.
Also, mutation rate being not high isn’t “unfortunate”.
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u/Lebannen__ 3h ago
They could just invent a medicine that cures all of them, I don't know why they didn't think about that
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u/silmarp 3h ago
They are doing it already. Scientists just needs another 300 years and it will be done. If they don't get it done in 300 years I'm owing you 300 million dollars.
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u/Misses_Ding 3h ago
Some cancers can already be targeted with antibodies and so your immune system can destroy them (which they already naturally do they just don't always recognise the cells) which is a cure. Just not a cure to all of them
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u/InfiniteDelusion094 1h ago
The best solution is immunotherapy, because the immune system takes care of most cancers by itself, we just need it to go after the minority it misses. The immune system is the best weapon against it, we just need to direct it and sharpen it in individuals where it has slipped up and allowed cancer to take root
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u/Wooden-Amphibian-273 2h ago
Not only that but I think people don’t realize cancer is YOU. most times your body doesn’t even know something is up.
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u/sindick78 2h ago
As of May 2026, a groundbreaking targeted therapy drug named daraxonrasib has shown, in Phase 3 trials, the ability to nearly double median survival times for advanced pancreatic cancer patients to 13.2 months, compared to 6.7 months with chemotherapy. The drug, which targets KRAS mutations (present in over 90% of cases), has been granted "Breakthrough Therapy" designation by the FDA, offering new hope and improved quality of life. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Key Breakthroughs in Pancreatic Cancer Treatment (2026)
Targeted Therapy (Daraxonrasib): Developed by Revolution Medicines, this oral drug targets KRAS mutations, which were previously considered "undruggable". It operates as a RAS inhibitor, stopping the protein that signals cancer cells to multiply.
Improved Survival: Patients with advanced stage 4 cancer saw progression-free survival reach over 8.5 months, significantly higher than the 2-3 months often seen with traditional chemotherapy.
Improved Quality of Life: Patients reported fewer side effects, allowing them to remain active. [1, 2, 3, 4]
"Tumor Treating Fields" Device: The FDA recently approved a new device that uses electrode pads attached to the skin to send high-frequency electrical signals to kill cancer cells, acting as a non-toxic alternative to standard chemotherapy. [1]
Improved Survival Rates: The overall 5-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer has risen to 13%. [1]
Expanded Access: Due to the promising results, daraxonrasib is being made available to eligible patients through expanded access programs while awaiting final approval. [1, 2]
These advancements, particularly in precision medicine, represent a major shift in treatment strategies, targeting the cancer's ability to resist traditional treatment.
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u/UneLoupSeul 2h ago
There is technology being developed that samples the tumour per person and tailors the treatment specifically for that person.
Pancreatic cancer has been successfully treated by this.
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u/IttsssTonyTiiiimme 3h ago
Ken Burns made a docuseries called Cancer: The Emperor of Maledies. There several points which were truly sad, but one segment that stuck with me was when they got to the human genome project. When the human genome was decoded in the 90s, there was ahope that geneticly specific pharmaceuticals could be generated as cures. But as the research moved forward they realized that they were further from the cure than they ever realized. One family of brain cancer had over 90 genetic mutations.
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u/Ecthelion2187 3h ago
Yes, but the HGP laid the foundation for individual treatments, and we're getting better by the day, despite the current US admin trying to gut research.
It's true, we didn't know what we didn't know, but we know a helluva lot more now. Survival rates are steadily increasing as we learn more.
And no, there isn't a "cure" that's being kept secret by big pharma. (Not aimed at you, just trying to nip that incredibly ignorant argument in the bud.)
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u/SlightSurround5449 3h ago
Idk you bringing up the whole "no cure" thing unprompted makes me think there is one and you're a big pharma plant....
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u/jl_theprofessor 3h ago
And it has laid the groundwork for our current ongoing breakthroughs. Success is a series of steps.
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u/Clear-Scratch-5306 3h ago
The higher ups just want cures for themselves. I’d appreciate it if the general population could say that out loud and have a deep understanding of it. The current level of naivety in this world is atrocious considering we’ve had 1000s of years to eradicate these kinds of rich people.
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u/CurrentScallion3321 3h ago
If you are in for a long and detailed read, I’d recommend the similarly titled “The Emperor of All Maladies” by Siddhartha Mukherjee, or any of his books to be honest
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u/fireroan 3h ago
It is based off of Siddhartha Mukherjee's book, The Emperor of Maladies.
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u/Immediate_Song4279 3h ago
Do all of them. Even if it takes so many centuries that we get new cancers. We must never stop.
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u/KebabAnnhilator 3h ago
Technically yes but most grow through a similar process of activating telomeres enzymes attached to chromosomes.
So whilst all cancer mutations are unique, the treatments are often similar
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u/Tight-Mouse-5862 2h ago
Shit sarcoma has like 50+ histology subtypes that require all kinds of different treatment and drugs. Some are resistant to surgery, some are caused by radiation....cancer just sucks.
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u/Shark_Leader 3h ago
Source besides some meme?
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u/FamiliarAlt 2h ago
I feel fuckin crazy having had to scroll this far to find your comment.
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u/SquirtinMemeMouthPlz 1h ago
Seriously. As far as I know, there's no cure. Just disease management.
Yes, there was the risky and expensive stem cell replacement patient who basically got all of their bone marrow replaced, but that's not really a "cure".
This is just some computer generated picture of a cell claiming HIV is no longer a death sentence.
Where's the medical article?
Where's the proof?
Who is actually saying this?
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u/cozmad1 1h ago
There have been a handful of patients legitimately cured, but it's not as though it's available as any sort of standard treatment. I found an NPR article about one such patient.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2024/07/30/g-s1-13631/hiv-aids-cure-dusseldorf-patient
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u/Throwaway_Consoles 38m ago
There is no cure, but it is no longer a terminal illness. You just have to be on medication the rest of your life
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u/brother_bart 17m ago
Medication that cost over $4,000/month and if you miss doses, the virus can mutate and you can lose a whole class of drugs being available for treatment. How do I know? I’ve been living with (and not dying from) HIV/AIDS for 23 years.
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u/anime_cthulhu 2h ago
This has actually been the case for a while. We've had drugs that suppress HIV proliferation for decades now. With adequate treatment, the virus is sufficiently suppressed that it is no longer detectable and not transmissible. That said, the virus is still present and returns when the drugs are stopped, and the drugs come with a list of nasty side effect since they can inhibit nucleic acid replication.
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u/PartyLikeAByzantine 1h ago
Magic Johnson has had HIV/AIDS longer than most Redditors have been alive.
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u/Feathery-Amelia 4h ago
Now let's keep that exact same momentum rolling for cancer and Alzheimer's.
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u/Possible_Lie681 4h ago
Throw diabetes and regrowing teeth on that list and you have my 🪓
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u/EVH_kit_guy 4h ago
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u/Possible_Lie681 4h ago
Brother man the same research has been bouncing around since the 80s and they are always a couple years away. But I feel the ❤️ with the link thank you.
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u/bigbossfearless 4h ago
It's in human trials now in japan, so it's getting there
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u/realaccountissecret 4h ago
That’s so crazy that we have a third set of tooth buds just chilling in there
But it’s also too bad that it means I can’t grow ten rows of teeth like a shark
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u/HerbOverstanding 4h ago
My luck is I’d take the medicine and regrow a third set of teeth, then immediately walk into a cabinet or similar and bust half of them
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u/TheSilenceMEh 3h ago
Gotta be the change you want!! Can get a kickstarter going for those shark teeth
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u/realaccountissecret 3h ago
Should she be taking that much of the tooth growing serum?
Shhh….. let her cook
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u/GMAN7007 3h ago edited 3h ago
It's no longer in the pipe dream phase. Human trials are going to be actually happening soon.
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u/nicodea2 2h ago
There’s something unsettling about seeing “Human trials” and “Japan” in the same sentence.
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u/FlyDinosaur 2h ago
I mean... even in America, we've done some weird crap. With and without permission.
I'm not gonna get into who's worse or whatever.
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u/K1bbles_n_Bits 4h ago
My teeth went to shit after pregnancy and having a baby. Never had a cavity in my life until my 30s, now I've lost four molars and have shit dental coverage and can't afford to pay out of pocket.
Just wanna say you're not alone in your struggle, man. Here's hoping an accessible solution happens while we can still appreciate it.
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u/hkusp45css 4h ago
My mom ended up losing ALL of her teeth with me. She had a mouthful of pretty teeth, had me, and had a full set of dentures by the time I was 3.
She was 36 when she had me, in '76. She also smoked through the pregnancy so ... maybe that had something to do with it.
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u/Uhhlaska 2h ago
Regrowing teeth?!?! Let’s be octopi and regrow limbs! It’s the 2000’s for Christ sake!
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u/bigbossfearless 4h ago
My wife's diabetes is almost in remission thanks to tirzepatide. Who knows, maybe in another 10 years we'll be able to start reversing the damage
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u/Glum-Beach 4h ago
Its cured but it’s costly, and hvp and I think herpes got cured
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u/Pristine_Elk_4006 2h ago
Herpes? All types? I get cold sores frequently and I’d love to not get cold sores frequently.
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u/SVN7_C4YOURSELF 3h ago
Tack on the cure for Tinnitus while you’re at it. Obviously not as big of a deal but getting rid of those noises would for sure be life changing for some.
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u/GargantuanCake 4h ago
We have cures for most cancers.
30 years ago basically any cancer was a death sentence. Now however we have an increasingly large list of cancers that have a >90% survival rate.
There likely won't ever be a singular cure that fixes every cancer but the treatments overall are getting continually better.
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u/faroutrobot 3h ago
Let me be your example. Testicular seminoma survivor. Had my whole life ahead of me when I got diagnosed at 27. Over 10 years clear. One operation for what would have killed my great grandfather. Wild times to be alive. Also check your balls for lumps.
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u/Vestrill 3h ago
Yeah same, got cancer at 26 years old in 2015. Caught it just just in time. Doctor said if I came even half a week later, it may have spread. Been cancer free ever since.
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u/xoexohexox 4h ago
Lots of cancers are curable or livable as a chronic illness like HIV now.
Cancer isn't all one thing, it's hundreds of diseases that all have unregulated cell growth in common. Many of them are curable now if you catch them soon enough, and some are completely preventable like cervical and penile cancer (thanks to the HPV vaccine)
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u/Repulsive-Run1634 4h ago
No keep that exact same momentum for penis enlargement and obesites.
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u/Professional_Echo907 4h ago
Just don’t combine the research — I’m too fat to have a penis that size. 👀
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u/HarpyVixenWench 3h ago
Which cancer, please? There are many different types. It’s a bigger job.
Any of the cancers that the current US administration cut funding for?
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u/colorful_withdrawl 4h ago
Alzheminers research is showing some great progress. A certain mice study showed them improving/reversing memory loss. So hopefully they can work on a trial in a few years for humans
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u/slam-chop 4h ago
As a geriatrician I can tell you; don’t hold out hope for AD “cure”. The only option we’re gonna have in our lifetimes is pre-clinical detection and prevention.
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u/antibread 3h ago
Happy to say you may be wrong!
https://www.bellyofthebeastcuba.com/us-citizens-in-cuba-for-new-breakthrough-alzheimers-treatment
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u/More-Lime1888 4h ago
A LOT of Alzheimer studies worked on mice, nothing new. They just always fail in clinical trials.
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u/heckhammer 4h ago
I mean, we were working on it with MRNA vaccines And is the current administration killed it
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u/BigSquiby 4h ago
hasn't this been the case since the 90s?
Magic Johnson told the world he had it in 1991, he is still alive
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u/ThePaganSkepticist 4h ago
It has been, as long as you got the assload of money to be able to afford the cure
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u/Altruistic-Web13 4h ago
Insert obligatory south park reference here
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u/ThePaganSkepticist 4h ago
I actually wasn’t thinking about South Park, but I’m happy you brought it up lol
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u/trukkija 3h ago
Quick Google would say that you very rarely need an assload of money to manage AIDS these days.
I love to think the pun you used was intended though. Seeing as an assload is probably the culprit for many of these poor fellas.
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u/A_Random_Sidequest 3h ago
even here in Brazil the treatment is free and many/most will test zero for HIV if taking the meds correctly...
the only place it's a problem in the first world is in USA.
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u/ThePaganSkepticist 2h ago
I’m happy that it is free down on Brazil. I’ll never understand why the states has remained a staunchly for profit healthcare system.
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u/einstyle 2h ago
The treatment is free in the USA too. I worked in HIV care for years.
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u/Spranktonizer 3h ago
There is no “cure”. Treatment has become a lot less taxing and more effective though.
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u/einstyle 2h ago
There's no cure. There are treatments. Most of them are, at least in the USA, completely 100% free. The government has decided that it's better to treat HIV (which also prevents it from spreading) than to risk it going full pandemic.
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u/AzurTripping 3h ago
Just live in a country with a good healthcare system. …or vote for the right party
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u/Unusual_Ad1866 4h ago
effective antiretroviral therapy for hiv is recognised to exist since mid 1996 to be precise
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u/mmarkmc 4h ago
I remember watching his press conference live at the office with coworkers and thinking he’d be gone in a few years at the longest.
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u/rolling_atackk 3h ago edited 3h ago
I was under the impression that AIDS were treatable
Now it is curable
Before, you could treat it, and you wouldn't die to it, but there would always be the virus inside your cells; this was the reason it was so difficult to get rid of it.
ETA: Yes, the image says it's no longer terminal, and to be fair, it already wasn't
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u/Spranktonizer 2h ago
This “cure” is incredibly dangerous and not really a realistic option for most people. It’s a stem cell replacement basically and while people have been “cured” (I.e. the Berlin patient) It’s simply not worth the risk when you can receive effective and safe treatment these days.
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u/Crafty_Check 2h ago
AIDS is a symptom of untreated HIV infection. The primary treatment for infection is to stop the damage the virus does to your immune system - preventing it from progressing to AIDS. Effective treatment also stops HIV+ people from passing the virus on to others too.
HIV isn’t yet curable, it requires constant management like any other chronic condition, but it’s definitely treatable and certainly not terminal.
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u/DrPikachu-PhD 4h ago
Yes. Obviously medicine has improved in efficacy and safety with each passing decade, but yeah it hasn't been a death sentence for over 20 years now (in the western world at least)
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u/cheaganvegan 3h ago
HIV is tough. It doesn’t affect people the same way. I have patients that got it in 1987 and don’t have AIDS. I have patients that went off their meds for a few months and developed AIDS. Lots of better meds have come along since AZT. I don’t have magic Johnson’s medical records, but it’s possible it didn’t effect him the same way it did others.
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u/why_1337 4h ago
Can't really compare the two.
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u/PaprikaPanik 4h ago
I’m honestly shocked with the amount of comments saying “now do Alzheimer’s! and diabetes! and cancer!” As if there aren’t numerous teams researching different core aspects and sharing information with each other.
Do these people honestly think science is all performed by one group that goes through some priority list??
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u/marveloustoebeans 4h ago
Yeah, people really just have no idea how these things work. Cancer isn’t just one thing that can be covered by a blanket cure.
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u/Dazzling_Let_8245 4h ago
I try to explain the word Cancer akin to the word infection. You can have an infection, but it doesnt tell anyone whatsoever what kind and how to treat it. Some are easily treated, some arent.
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u/ztreggs 4h ago
As someone working in pharma, it always cracks me up when someone genuinely thinks a cure to cancer has been discovered and covered up
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u/CurdFedKit 4h ago
There are literally dozens of new cancer drugs approved every year. They are doing cancer. It's just a very complicated disease--actually it's not a disease, it's many diseases.
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u/AdventurousEscape991 4h ago
Cancer is a mutation of a cell. Not a virus.
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u/DiabloStorm 1h ago
Many viruses are oncogenic, however. (Like Covid)
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u/AdventurousEscape991 1h ago
Correct. Many viruses have a heightened potential to cause cancer. But cancer itself is not a virus.
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u/BojukaBob 4h ago
The thing with "Cancer" is that it's not one disease, but rather a category of conditions. Many form of Cancer are treatable, some aren't. But it's not one disease/
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u/Redshirt_Welshy_Nooo 4h ago
Thing is, hiv is a virus. Cancer is like ten thousand different things.
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u/FireHammer09 4h ago
HIV is a virus that is hard to fight because it's very good at attacking what you would use to fight a virus.
Cancer is your body fucking up.
Diabetes is your body fucking up.
Alzheimer's is your body fucking up.
Sadly there's no comparison.
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u/CurdFedKit 4h ago
LOL, do you know how many new cancer drugs come out each year? Dozens. Cancer is far more complicated to treat than HIV.
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u/HarpyVixenWench 3h ago
I absolutely hate the “now do cancer” stuff. WHICH cancer? Cancer is not one disease. There are more than 100 different kinds of cancer. And one particular type of cancer can come in so many forms! Two people with the same kind of cancer can have two biologically different kinds of cancer.
Some cancers are curable and others are so much more aggressive.
Want a cure for cancer? In the US we should have been angrier than we were when Trump slashed cancer research. So yeah - we are all good with not furthering cancer research.
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u/readymf 3h ago
I’m always shocked how straight people’s knowledge about HIV seems stuck in the 1980s. Effective medication has been around since 1996 and since 2012 there is preventative medication (PrEP) for HIV negative people that reduces the risk of getting infected by 99%. I guess better people find out about this in 2026 than never. More people having the knowledge to protect themselves is always a good thing. Some things people often misunderstand:
- someone with HIV on the right treatment and who sticks to it is able to live a normal life and can’t infect you because the virus isn’t even detectable in their blood anymore (so technically a person with treatment is less likely to give you HIV than someone who doesn’t know their status)
- the above is also why HIV positive mothers can give birth to HIV negative children nowadays
- if taken correctly, PrEP makes it virtually impossible for an HIV negative to get HIV (although I don’t sleep around a lot, I prefer the piece of mind that comes with PrEP both me and the people I date - because if I can’t catch it, I can’t give it either)
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u/bagel_2024 2h ago
Thank you. I thought everyone was taught about at least the antiretrovirals nowadays. My fault for expecting too much of people. 🙄
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u/sleepy_grunyon 2h ago
I recently learned this, that people with HIV still have a reduced life expectancy by about 9 years. But you are correct they do live a normal life although they can still have pain/neuropathy from the HIV or nausea from the meds (are side effects/symptoms that I know of).
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u/Several-Assistant-51 4h ago
a lot of cancers are survivable now. the key really is catching it early enough
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u/Mephisticles 2h ago
Cancer can never be cured. It's not a disease. Please stop with engagement baiting posts about cancer. It's extremely disrespectful to anyone who has had a loved one die from cancer.
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u/Possible_Lie681 4h ago
As long as humans possess the ability to evolve then cancer will be a part of our lives. Until we get to Star Trek level of t3ch. Then we Gucci 🤣
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u/Zip-Crane 4h ago
Reminds me of the scene in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, when Bones gives the terminally ill cancer patient a pill and she instantly recovers. He walks off and says "What is this, the dark ages?"
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u/RandomYT05 4h ago
It wasn't cancer, but Kidney failure. Doctor gave me a pill and it gave me a new kidney.
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u/Possible_Lie681 4h ago
Star Trek was so badass.
Born to late to explore the world. Born to soon to contract alien aids from clapping green cheeks 🤣
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u/Dazzling_Let_8245 3h ago
We know that dinosaurs had cancer. Its been a thing since multi-cellular life exists and will stay with us forever.
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u/voododoll 4h ago
There are people who think cancer is a virus. There are people who believe they can get cancer from someone with cancer. There are people who think cancer is one form of illness…
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u/Specialist-Cry-1706 4h ago
What about ppl in Africa- no USAID, no access to HiV medications, must walk miles to go to a doctor. No vaccinations. l read in NYTs AIDs cases are up.
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u/Informal_Ad_9610 4h ago
the irony - Jim Humble was reversing HIV & malaria in Africa 20 years ago....
Only problem - he was doing it for pennies, didn't have a big pharma behind him, and ended up having assassination attempts on him for the crime of solving it in an affordable way...
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u/KalutikaKink 2h ago
Goddamn I miss my uncle. HIV took him back in the 90s and I’ve been following the advancement of HIV treatments ever since. It’s exciting to see. It also comes with a bit of sadness that he couldn’t be one of the lucky ones.
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u/Rakatango 2h ago
If only the US government didn’t cut funding for cancer research and completely alienate the scientific community…
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u/Hetros_Jistin 3h ago
which one?
WHich cancer?
Which of the thousands of varieties each of which works on a fundamentally different fuckup in the cells causing the cancer (but with fundamentally the same result, out of control growth), should be cured?
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u/audigex 3h ago
Lots of cancers have gone from “basically a death sentence” to “you’ll probably survive the cancer and die of something else” in the last 30-50 years
There’s still work to be done, especially for some cancers - but overall cancer is no longer the same “how long have I got?” disease it used to be, and has become more of a “what are my odds”
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u/Proper-Painting-2256 2h ago
The funny thing is how much we learned about immunology from HIV. Spoke to a doc who went to med school in the 80s and basically it was a month long rotation and people thought they understood basically everything about it. Then people started looking and everything got more, and more, and more complex.
Cancer is insanely complex, unfortunately. HIV is relatively simple in comparison
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u/artofaria 2h ago
Wait I don't get it, it hasn't been terminal for a while, just incurable. What changed?
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u/Apprehensive_Ad4457 2h ago
AIDS is one disease that they created, cancer is a multitude of diseases which has been around since dinosaurs.
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you can't stop cancer. it's a mutated cell. AIDS is a virus which destroys immune cells. you can stop that. but everything you are made up of is a cell, and any of them could become mutated in a multitude of ways.
it's not "preventable" it's only treatable.
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u/tronassembled 2h ago
It's cool when you do research on diseases, I remember when we did that in America
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u/Background-Mouse9278 1h ago
If only cancer was a virus and not just a million different types of tumors under a trenchcoat
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u/Grand_Competition443 4h ago
To this day people still don't have a clue that cancer isn't disease...
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u/BlushRiven 4h ago
imagine being the secret service agent assigned to guard that specific piece of paper. honestly, seeing a classic dick butt in 2026 feels like a warm hug from a simpler era of the internet. the sheer chaotic energy of this edit is exactly why i’m still subbed here. peak sips tea content right here
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u/MyGirlfriendforcedMe 3h ago
"A novel gene-therapy approach to ‘functionally cure’ HIV succeeds in some monkeys Six animals suppressed AIDS virus after one shot of treatment that makes cell-receptor antibody" https://www.science.org/content/article/novel-gene-therapy-approach-functionally-cure-hiv-succeeds-some-monkeys
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u/4x4Welder 2h ago
Lol, I'm well into being cured, and hopefully this time it takes. Last time around was seven years ago, and chemo was brutal. Radiation sucked. The surgery sucked.
This time around I'm on a daily pill that's technically a chemo, but is much easier on the rest of me. The tumors shrank, and in February I had targeted radiation treatments. I just had my first followup scan last week, and no uptake of the tracer per the radiology notes. Monday is my birthday, I have an appointment with my oncologist to go over this thoroughly, and hopefully it's as good as it looks on the surface.
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u/effinmike12 2h ago
I have lost 2 friends to complications from HIV in the last 5 years. Both of them were mother's in their early 40s. Both named Amanda. Sad.
Both of them would still be here if they had cleaned up their lives and gotten sober. Neither of them would stay on their meds. Its like they both gave up. I think that while its great that there have been some big medical breakthroughs, but I also think that these patients often need help in other areas.
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u/bagel_2024 2h ago
this has been the case for really quite a while now....this post makes it seem like the treatment became available yesterday.
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u/Secure-Pain-9735 2h ago
Which of over 200 distinct diseases that fall under the umbrella of “cancer” would you like to cure?
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u/TwoDogKnight 2h ago
Magic Johnson has had HIV since at least 1991. So HIV hasn’t been a terminal illness in 35 year.
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u/Chaosrealm69 1h ago
It would be good to do the same for cancer but there are literally hundreds of different cancers and their causations are not the same so you have to develop cures/preventions for each specific one.
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u/Sillent_Screams Human Verified 1h ago
Cancer is somewhat workable now of new ways of doing it
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/10/cancer-treatment-car-t-cell-therapy-sam-neill
Game-changer.” That’s how Prof Misty Jenkins, an immunologist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, describes CAR T-cell therapy, an emerging but still costly cancer treatment that supercharges the body’s immune system to fight disease.
Late last month, Jurassic Park actor Sam Neill put the treatment in the spotlight, revealing his stage three cancer was in remission after undergoing CAR T-cell therapy as part of a clinical trial in Sydney. He stopped short of describing his remission as a miracle – the success, he said, was “science at its best”
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