I entirely support more cancer research, but I wouldn't want people to be disappointed in our progress so far. There will never be a single cure for cancer, because "cancer" isn't a single kind of thing:
Great strides have been made. E.g., one friend with leukemia just takes a daily pill. 40 years ago we would have buried him by now, but since he got cancer he's taken up doing triathlons. Go science!
Yes, I understand cancers is plural and there won't be a single cure.. It's not have far we've come, it's how far we have to go. Easy early detection would really help more people. We need to solve a lot of problems, which gets back to my original request. A lot of really smart HN'ers looking for problems to solve.
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Great strides have been made. E.g., one friend with leukemia just takes a daily pill. 40 years ago we would have buried him by now, but since he got cancer he's taken up doing triathlons. Go science!