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gcFd1
"We can pinpoint and map tumors in the patient almost in real time,"
This is a giant step and good to see this treatment being used here in Australia.
Hopefully someday there will be a cure for cancer, instead of these treatments.
Curing cancer and a cure for cancer of course are not the same thing, as some people not in the industry confuse the meaning.
virusrex
Yes they are, by definition something that can be used to cure a disease automatically becomes a cure, if medical associations of professionals that deal with cancer say some varieties are even frequently cured it makes no sense to say those professionals are "not in the industry". That is their field of expertise.
virusrex
The ACA explicitly says cancer patients can be cured, even frequently.
https://www.cancer.org/cancer/understanding-cancer/can-cancer-be-cured.html
What is the point of making a claim so easily proved as false? is it so important to you to convince people their disease in incurable even when oncologists are trying to convey the opposite message? People are cured from cancer every day, even if there is no single cure for all types of cancer, or infection, or deficiencies, etc.
yipyip
Yep, and this issue was discussed earlier.
But the ACA does not say there is a cure for cancer.
Is it a language difficulty with that actually simple medical terminology?
Read this again, and try and argue against it:
There are no cures for any kinds of cancer,
virusrex
It a professional organization dedicated to the fight against cancer says treatment can cure patients, even frequently then of course that means they are saying there was a cure for those patients. Obviously the ACA knows what they are talking about.
gcFd1
It is a charity. And it doesn't even say there is a cure for cancer.
Unlike other diseases, cancer has its own language: There’s no cure for it,
https://www.webmd.com/cancer/cure-for-cancer
But do some actual research and you will see:
When you understand the difference, it makes all the difference.
https://www.webmd.com/cancer/cure-for-cancer
virusrex
A charity where professional docotrs that deal with cancer write to answer question and give advice, and it clearly says patients with cancer are cured, even frequently, a treatment that is used to cure patients is by definition a cure for that disease.
yipyip
No, the doctors from that charity do not say there is a cure for cancer. You even wrote "cancer are cured" but you didn't write any doctor says there is a cure for cancer.They explicitly say the opposite.
As do the government affiliated medical councils in the US, the UK, Australia, just to start.
All note there is no cure for cancer.
The most popular health related medical site in the US states the obvious.
There’s no cure for it, but there are treatments that may be able to cure some people of some cancers.
https://www.webmd.com/cancer/cure-for-cancer
virusrex
Yes they did the text is a literal quote from the advice given in the page
Whether a person’s cancer can be cured depends on the type and stage of the cancer, the type of treatment they can get, and other factors. Some cancers are more likely to be cured than others
By definition if a treatment can be used to cure a disease that means it is a cure for that disease, you have not been able to argue against this. Just make baseless claims about the official definition of the word being wrong.
All note there is no one cure for cancer in general, in the same way there is no cure for infection in general or deficiencies in general, etc.
If a treatment can be used to cure patients with specific forms of cancer, that means those treatments are cures.
Not to mention that they do say cancer can be cured
https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/holding-curative-and-palliative-intentions/2021-10
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3710180/