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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Yeah this is brutal.

It wasn’t a good movie, Gotti, but she was good in it.

They seemed like a happy couple.

I just don’t understand that with cars driving themselves around, quantum computers becoming a reality even if in their infancy and leaps and bounds in technology..

Why do so many still die from cancer?


6 posted on 07/13/2020 12:38:39 AM PDT by dp0622 (Trump!!)
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To: dp0622
Why do so many still die from cancer?

Let's say they cured cancer tomorrow. A multibillion dollar a year industry and hundreds of thousands if not more jobs would disappear overnight. Professional fundraisers who make fortunes appealing to our good will and desire for a cure would have to find another way to make a buck off of other people's sorrow. Not going to happen.

I know, I'm cynical but this is the world we live in now.

9 posted on 07/13/2020 12:58:56 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: dp0622

The numbers are going down but I do think for most women a breast cancer reduction diet is much more important than genetics. Of course breast cancer researchers still die also (RIP Dr. Beth Levine) so that isn’t the entire answer.


25 posted on 07/13/2020 1:59:36 AM PDT by erlayman (yw)
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To: dp0622

“Why do so many still die from cancer?”

My sister lost her nine-year-old son to cancer. It is a terrible disease, but I read that medical researchers are working on combining a virus with an anti-cancer agent; when it’s injected into mice, it kind of eats away at the cancer cells. Apparently, they have had promising results.


35 posted on 07/13/2020 2:13:24 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (But Gollum and the evil warlock crept up and wslipped away with her ...)
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To: dp0622

Because it’s a really disordered growth of cells and you can’t necessarily order them to turn off. (That’s what wifey says. I know nothing about it.)


65 posted on 07/13/2020 4:08:44 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: dp0622
”Why do so many still die from cancer?”

Money, along with the politics driven by money.

Look at the politics around hydroxychloroquine and multiply by 1000 because of decades of entrenched interests.

There are thousands of Faucis blocking real medical solutions.

68 posted on 07/13/2020 4:18:39 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is solving the world's problems only to distract us from Russia.)
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To: dp0622

It’s too big an industry, like diabetes and several others, none of which will ever be “cured”. Too many jobs and too much money involved.


69 posted on 07/13/2020 4:31:35 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: dp0622
Why do so many still die from cancer?

Despite trillions of dollars spent on medical research over the years, how did one little virus kick the world's @ss?
89 posted on 07/13/2020 5:46:07 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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