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anchpop | 3 years ago

> Human cancer might never be solved if strong business entities were to rely on the prevalence of cancer

Given the amount of money someone with a patent on a cancer treatment or cure would make, it's hard for me to imagine that

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makeitdouble|3 years ago

You are referring to a technical solution, but the patented miracle cure could be limited to 1% of the patients and never make it to the rest, if for whatever reason it didn't make economical sense to do so. It's a bit of goal pushing, but I wouldn't call that "solving" cancer.