Curing cancer would be the equivalent of the Manhattan project, the moon landing, the mapping of the human genome and the making it relatively affordabl, e the discovery of both antibiotics and phage therapy, and the development and mass deployment of vaccines. It is an achievement demonstrating such wild dominance over the struggles and complexity of the physical world that I think its only comparisons would be to something like establishment of terraformed nations on Mars.

Right now we’re still developing cures for the easy cancers. Attempting to cure cancers is big business in both the pharmaceutical world and in nonprofits, and it is working, but it’s slow. Unfortunately cancers are made of our own cells so even things like curing bacterial disease don’t even really express the difficulty. But it’s happening, and general treatments and prognoses continue to improve as well as increasing numbers of cures for specific cancers in people with certain gene presentations.

Sorry about the rant, my mom died of cancer nearly a decade ago and I’m annoyed to no end by people acting like big pharma is intentionally not curing cancer to make more money, when the reality is what I said above.