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New Drug Kills Cancer 20,000x More Effectively With No Detectable Side Effects (scitechdaily.com)

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[–] FatTony@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

For real, we get a cure for cancer every other day of the week.

[–] saimen@feddit.org 5 points 15 hours ago

It's because there is no single entity like cancer. In fact every organ or rather every cell type can develop various vastly diferent kinds of "cancers".

It's like using a word for all mental health issues, let's say menzy. And then there is a new promising drug for a manic episode in bipolar disorder but only without psychotic symptoms and the headline says: new promising treatment against menzy.