From new treatments to AI: advances in the fight against cancer

Cancer is quickly (but never quickly enough) becoming a disease that is serious but no longer the death sentence it previously was. People are getting earlier diagnoses, safer surgeries, more variated and personalized therapies, more complete help in their recovery, etc. Medical science has been long focused in cancer and the results are showing. Not only for those that already are affected, but for the population in general that now have a much better idea about lifestyles that help preventing cancer for as long as possible.

virusrexToday 04:10 pm JST

Cancer is quickly (but never quickly enough) becoming a disease that is serious but no longer the death sentence it previously was.

Maybe where you are, but we even see celebrities dying young of cancer in the US. Overworked doctors just assume the best and move on to the next patient.

Maybe where you are, but we even see celebrities dying young of cancer in the US. Overworked doctors just assume the best and move on to the next patient.

As long as LESS people are dying that is still a huge advance, the problem is thinking that either a problem is solved completely or else there is no advance at all. Of course health systems on the brink of failure mean every disease can still be deadly, but cancer is no longer a head above everything else as before, even in places with such failures of public health.

virusrexSep. 18 07:45 pm JST

Maybe where you are, but we even see celebrities dying young of cancer in the US. Overworked doctors just assume the best and move on to the next patient.

As long as LESS people are dying that is still a huge advance, the problem is thinking that either a problem is solved completely or else there is no advance at all. Of course health systems on the brink of failure mean every disease can still be deadly, but cancer is no longer a head above everything else as before, even in places with such failures of public health.

The US healthcare system may not be great but its also not a failure. Cancer is still the leading cause of death in Japan. Doesn't sound like it is solved to me.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1136808/japan-most-frequent-causes-of-deaths-men/

The US healthcare system may not be great but its also not a failure. Cancer is still the leading cause of death in Japan. Doesn't sound like it is solved to me.

The US system is such that the average person pays much more and does much worse than in every other developed country, the single fact that the US is the only one that has not been able to enact universal health care is clear proof of the failure. Unfortunately this is the product of focusing in healthcare as a business instead of a public service.

Cancer being the leading cause of death also has to do with reducing all causes of death in general, traditionally this did not included cancer and patients diagnoses were all but considered having a death sentence, but now it is slowly becoming less and less surprising that patients are considered cured and live to die from unrelated causes later. That is a huge advancement.