Reply #121: There is no magic bullet for cancer

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There are hundreds of different types of cancers, each requiring its own specific treatment plan. The breakthroughs that do occur will only help a fraction of the cancer cases, and the results vary by individual.

I am a cancer survivor, and had to undergo many different chemo drugs, radiation therapy, and a bone marrow transplant. It took all that to get it to cure and I still had a high risks of dying.

Most of these breakthrough's are just going to be another weapon in the arsenal used in the fight for cancer.

The chemotherapy drugs I have taken were around for decades and that patents have been expired long ago, so it isn't some conspiracy. A lot increases in survivor rates were just from doctors learning how to use their old treatments in better ways. There is nothing miraculous about it.

BTW, a lot of studies also are done with cancer cells in test tubes which can be promising on paper. Getting the same type of treatment concentrated on the tumor in the human body is a lot more difficult.