• pishadoot@sh.itjust.works
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    21 hours ago

    To be fair though, cancer as a whole gets a lot of study dollars but it’s incredibly complicated and every form of cancer varies wildly in how it affects the body, how best to treat it, how to screen for it, who are at risk, etc.

    The comment you replied to was referring to a single variant that affects only men (incorrectly associating it with Steve jobs, but regardless), not the entirety of cancer writ large.

    Studying bone cancer, skin cancer, and studying prostate cancer etc for example are wholly separate things and shouldn’t really be put under the same bucket in this context.

    • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      It was intended as a list, cancer that only affects men, not cured. Steve jobs, a very rich person, still died young despite the money for the best medical care… “modern” medicine is really still in the dark ages. It’s come a long way, so it seems so advanced, but the percent of the human body and how it functions that we actually understand is well below 10. Most things we just trial and error solutions without much understanding of what is really going on.