How do we actually cure cancer?

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Friend of mine has cancer right now and after the chemo establishes a viable foothold, they'll be treating it with surgical removal of the bad tissues and implanting stem cells to regrow healthy tissue in its place.

It's a form of lymphoma currently isolated in his stomach, but the same methodology could likely be used for other variants.

It's closer to maritime hull-patching than full on R&R but until your orbital organ farm becomes a thing, it has great potential.

Granted, these are still technically treatments rather than cures, but it's still massive progress.

For people who already have it's probably impossible to get better than in currently is. In order to reduce incidence, there's prevention and possible developments in genetics with better DNA correcting mechanisms

You're right, in fact technically my method isn't even a "cure." As your analogy was maritime hull patching, mine is like completely decommissioning a ship and building a new one. I can see problems with my method though, mainly involving costs and the fact that the body will usually reject foreign tissue after ten years. That'd suck to have your cancer or severed leg or heart disease cured and then you have to pay like $50,000 every ten years. Hopefully good ol' Elon figures that part out. For now, this is going to be impossible.

Hey, I hope your bro's lymphoma comes along well. I know this is the Veeky Forumsence board, but I am a religious fag, so for what it's worth he'll be in my prayers.

This is his 3rd time in the last 5 years fighting it off and each one's been a different form (NHL and then testicular) so hopefully third time's a charm and he won't have to go through it again. He's a tough dude though, and his current chemo round is supposed to be the last one before they do the stem cells.

As far as the farm method goes, the microgravity could potentially be simulated in a liquid suspension which may also allow for dialytic handshakes between the potential graft and host.

You can't, cancer is a mutation of the dna, if you cure that, your body will stop producing new cells and you'll die.

Keep your immune system healthy and use organic chemistry to produce anti-bodies specifically targeted at the type of cancer you have if you end up getting cancer. They already do this in labs across the country, but treatment is expensive and needs more research.

>remove and replace
>a small pocket of cells that you don't even know was there until it's spread tumors through the whole body

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Once this gets really going we're going to need a shitload of LHC level data processing