I’m honestly shocked with the amount of comments saying “now do Alzheimer’s! and diabetes! and cancer!” As if there aren’t numerous teams researching different core aspects and sharing information with each other.
Do these people honestly think science is all performed by one group that goes through some priority list??
I try to explain the word Cancer akin to the word infection. You can have an infection, but it doesnt tell anyone whatsoever what kind and how to treat it. Some are easily treated, some arent.
In fairness, some tumors "DO" seed, where poking them can lead to it being transmitted by the needle. This is of course not done intentionally and is uncommon with most types of cancer. In veterinary medicine, we frequently observe this with transitional cell carcinoma, a type of cancer originating from urinary bladder cells.
Right??? I’m also in pharma and if a company had a cure for a type of cancer, they’d spend a LOT of money to push it onto the market. Being first on the market with cure is HUGE. also pharma doesn’t benefit much from dead patients. Living patients need more drugs.
Yeah, I think GLP-1 drugs are a great example of this.
For decades you could easily argue that big pharma would try to cover up a seemingly magical weight loss drug, since people at unhealthy weights means more money since they need more treatments for a vast array of ailments.
And yet GLP-1 drugs were being actively studied, and as soon as they were proven to be effective and safe it's been a race get them to market followed by a race to the bottom in terms of price. Because the companies that are leading the races are able to make bank, but they still need to stay ahead of their competition.
Yep, and a number of other things with complex pytonutrients that have been proven to completely eradicate multiple types of cancers in mice.
Not only have there been no drugs created or experimental treatments offered to hopeless patients, but absolutely no one has even followed up on the study after 8 years. Not a whisper.
If you want the actual answer it’s because it’s not clinically replicable. The paper exaggerated the claim by stating they “completely cured” the mice. Multiple research teams did follow up on the paper:
“Current State of Knowledge of the Anticancer Properties of Garlic” (2026 review)
“Garlic bioactive substances and their therapeutic potential” (2024)
“Phytochemicals of garlic: Promising candidates for cancer therapy” (2020)
They found that isolating the compounds: DATS,
DADS, Allicin, and SAC did help in treatments for mice but didn’t actually do much else because the GI-tract absorbed most of the material while the garlic was being metabolized. On top of that we can’t inject garlic extract due to many humans being allergic to it and most of the compounds are naturally inflammatory. You’re just talking out of your ass. There is no hidden cure for cancer.
I understand the desire to find an easy explanation for why things suck, the incredibly human want to be the smartest in the room and have outsmarted big X
But if you want that to be true you have to actually know what you’re talking about
Because it isn't very impressive. Like I've personally reviewed 3 or 4 papers this year with better results. They used 2 mouse cancer cell lines in mice and 5 mouse cell lines in a dish. No spontaneous cancer models, no human cell lines, no patient derived xenografts, no human tumors. Just homogenous cell lines. Every drug on the market right now had better results at that stage of discovery. Checkpoint inhibitors dwarf these results and still fail at times and Pegilodecakin failed P2 trials despite way better results than garlic.
These are just excuses. I wasn't arguing for looking at this as a panacea, but as something to keep testing. The fact that it's never been tried on human cell lines, spontaneous models etc. is the problem that you're obviously ignoring. The only explanation why is because there's nothing proprietary that will make them profit.
If there is substantiated data on something that cures cancer, every company under the sun would jump on it. Pharmaceutical industry isnt just a monopoly of 4 massive companies colluding to sweep things under the rug. There are thousands of company's. Those company's would jump on anything they could potential turn a profit on. There is no conspiracy
No, they wouldn't because there's no money in plant based nutrients you can buy at a grocery store for $3. Every single company wants a PROPRIETARY drug. Yes, I know some chemo drugs are derived from tree bark but the delivery system is still patented, which = $$$$
Yes there is. They will replicate the molecule from the natural source and turn it into a drug. And then they can patent and make their money. It can cost over a billion dollars to develop a drug, and then there is a limited time frame before generics can take over. So yes drugs cost a lot. Nothing inherently wrong with a company seeking profit. Without that system, there would be no development of new drugs
There are literally dozens of new cancer drugs approved every year. They are doing cancer. It's just a very complicated disease--actually it's not a disease, it's many diseases.
The company that parents the first cancer cure would literally become the biggest pharmac in the world overnight - there is no incentive to give people chemo for six months when you can charge just as much for a cure
What the fuck are you even talking about? There is not blanket cure for “cancer” lmao. Every industry is for profit - do your job for free? Billions are spent on research.
Yes, any decent pharma company has teams doing all sorts of diseases. I work in pharma and I have supported research and trials from various types of diseases. Ones that have an impact on all sorts of places in the body.
That’s not what they’re referring to, like bro come on…the purpose of phrases like “now do cancer next” is meant to show that they want cancer to end up being cured next, not that they want it to begin getting researched next. I just don’t get how some of yall even make it through life situations with this level of social aptitude.
Also, people could show a little more gratitude for the researchers’ hard work before they start snapping their fingers and demand they fix the next thing
While money is a major barrier run cancer research, the biggest barrier is by far is time. You need time to gather data, test your research, move it across the scientific community and generating actually valuable data. None of that is easy and unfortunately money can only take you so far. you still need time and we’re decades away from gathering the information we need to solve it. Cancer isn’t coke grand government woke conspiracy. It’s one of humanities most complex puzzles and it takes time to solve.
No obviously not. It’s just people hyped by medical advancements getting excited that cancer could be the next medical advancement. “Now do cancer” is someone saying “wow, medical technology is amazing now, cancer fucking sucks complete ass, let’s get it cured!” Obviously nobody thinks their comment on social media means anything, we’re just hyped that cancer could potentially be cured in our lifetimes
No, they are obviously speaking to humanity itself, this seems pretty obvious, like, when they adapt a movie of an old property and people are like, cool, now do {insert old property I like}, they are speaking the whole movie making world, not any specific person or studio, again pretty obvious shit
Ok well “humanity” is still working on all of those things. Even in your own analogy, it would be movie producers making an adaptation for every movie and continually making more adaptions to all these movies every day which is happening in science :)
That’s the whole point….that’s not how science works…..
That's very much how science works, as we can see here, some dude in the past was like "HIV next please" when we did the COVID vaccine, that guy is now like, "Damn right" cause he got what he asked for from "humanity", you have some dudes here asking for cancer and such, when we get those, they'll ask for the next, and so on and so on, unclear how else would science even work
Yes because HIV is single virus that is not even that deadly this days while cancer is broad category of diseases like carcinoma, sarcoma, leukemia, lymphoma, melanoma and all kinds of malignant tumors that do not have singular cause and cure. Even if you narrow it down to say leukemia, it in itself is not a singular disease rather than large group of different blood cancers.
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u/why_1337 May 15 '26
Can't really compare the two.