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Originally Posted by chenyu
...Cancer is a malignant tumour.it is an incurable disease; the patient moves towards the death finally like the rotten tree. Medical treatment in cancer is only a blind experiment. It can't prolong the patient's life. It is harmful to the human body and accelerates the patient's death instead. ...
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I am not sure why you contend that "cancer" is incurable. Treatment is certainly not a blind experiement. Many cancer centers (most actually) participate in large controlled trials to identify therapies that might be of merit (i.e., therapies that statistically extend life, reduce tumor size, or otherwise improve on existing therapies).
Cancers are not all the same. Some cancers (e.g., Hodgkins Lymphoma ) have significant cure rates after conventional chemotherapeutic interventions. Others are far more resistant to treatment. Many cancers are completely cured by surgery if a malignany is extracted before metastasis. Even some of the more stubborn cancers (lung, breast) have had some pretty significant increases in survival, although the actual extent of life extension is open to some debate.
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