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This Time article ignores the significant steps taken in understanding the mechanisms of cancer so that we may look for a cure. A cure for cancer is not as simple as a cure for throat infection, because cancer comprises over 100 diseases throughout the entire body...
Although it is true that the majority of the decline in cancer deaths is due to prevention, it is unduly pessimistic to assume that doctors will probably never find a cure for cancer. It is even misleading to say that because we haven't found the magic bullet, we have not achieved anything in fighting the disease. Medicine does not involve only two options: cure or no cure. Instead, alleviation of symptoms, improved quality and extension of life aids sufferers when no cure exists. However, an even more disturbing implication of the article is that because basic research...
...research. Medicine can eliminate few diseases completely with a magic bullet as it did polio (which the World Health Organization believes has been eliminated through vaccines.) But it can significantly improve the prognosis for patients, as it does for diabetics who can lead a near-normal lifestyle without a cure. In this war against cancer, we do not have to decimate the enemy to win. Each small achievement is a victory...
...think it will go unstigmatized until there's a cure for it," Bloodworth says. "I don't think testing -- anonymous or confidential -- will change the stigma...
...moment there, I thought that modern technology had hit upon the solution to the Harvard social scene problem. Yes, folks, that's right--science, it seemed, was going to step in and cure our party woes and reinvigorate (or maybe just invigorate) our paltry non-academic lives. This past January, to lavish press and fantastic accolades, two groups of scientists independently reported that, in the words of a New York Times article on the first of this month, "people with an unshakable thirst for new sensations, who are impulsive, hot-blooded, fickle, excitable and extravagant, tend to have a distinctive...