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It does make one wonder, doesn't it? Sometimes it seems like there's just too much money to be made in preserving the problem.

On the subject of cancer, yes, that's something else I've heard the same tired platitudes bandied about for over half a century. Nothing has changed.

But on that front, I do believe there are advances in treatment that we 'little people' just aren't privy to. An example of this is a friend of mine who died a couple of years ago at age 65, of the same exact type of brain cancer that ex-President Jimmy Carter had. He went overseas and was cured in a matter of months. My friend, lacking that special treatment, died horribly.

Tells you things.

Bussard's Should Google Go Nuclear? speech referred to his tenure as Assistant Director AEC, as procuring fusion research funding as a program to keep physicists employed.

My friend/boss just had his leg amputated due to cancer. This was after radiation and the knee joint was removed 15 months ago.

Detection is the key and the doctors are getting better at that. But a cure? Who knows when it will exist.

But the treatment seems to be the same as 50 years ago — radiation, chemo, or cut out the cancerous part.