There are plenty of other horrific medical conditions without cures or significant funding into their research.

Blanking on the medical name, but there's a disease that fucks the immune system into turning bruised flesh into bone. Most sufferers of it don't even make it to 20 years old. And the existing treatments to reduce it all have terrible side effects.

if a 100% effective cure (or preventative) for cancer comes around, what will be the next big goal?

Making the cure accessible. Some cancer treatments are more effective AND much more expensive. Companies may be looking for return on investment, or the treatment is tailor-made from the patient's own cells, and inherently labor intensive and hard to produce.

Either way, curing 100% of the richest 5% who can afford it isn't the most satifying outcome.

There are so many types of cancer and diseases that can be studied. But the end run is curing aging and cell deterioration imo.

If we're talking in very general, "wishlist" ways, I would hope that a lot of the present cancer and vaccine research might make it possible in the future to correct birth defect prenatally. Things like congenital heart defects being fixed via gene editing during development versus surgically afterwards. Ditto for things like autoimmune or other inherited diseases.

Yeah but it's generally a good metric for how it will work in humans and leukemia is really tough to treat. Seems promising.

Another cancer cure for mice. I’m sure that’s useful to someone.

There are funner ways to get throat cancer :wink: :wink:

Meanwhile, the age-standadized death rate of Cancer in the USA has fallen %30 over the past 30 years.

For real, we get a cure for cancer every other day of the week.

people need to stop making weed such a good thing. its not 100% safe for you, even in non-smokable products.

Sorry, I whooshed. Does this imply a conspiracy to keep cancer research secret?

What the fuck, lemmy how is this insane conspiracy shit so upvoted?