▲ | nradov 10 months ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Is there any plausible biological reason to think that there could ever be a single cure for cancer? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | ckemere 10 months ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Perhaps immune-based therapies like CAR-T are based on the premise that there are many cancerous cells in your body all the time, but your immune system deals with them, and it’s only when it fails to do so that you end up in the pathological state. So the “single cure” is the normally-functioning immune system? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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▲ | inglor_cz 10 months ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Some mammal species like bats, whales and naked mole rats seem to be extremely unlikely to get cancer. Which may be an indication that a very efficient immune system can keep cancer in check indefinitely. |