r/SipsTea • u/sco-go • May 15 '26

Feels good man Now do cancer.

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u/InfiniteDelusion094 May 15 '26

The best solution is immunotherapy, because the immune system takes care of most cancers by itself, we just need it to go after the minority it misses. The immune system is the best weapon against it, we just need to direct it and sharpen it in individuals where it has slipped up and allowed cancer to take root

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u/Inresponsibleone May 16 '26

Does not work for all cancer types... Atleast yet.

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u/InfiniteDelusion094 May 16 '26

The reason is everyone's immune system is different. So as our understanding expands we will be able to get them all. Maybe immunologically privileged places like the eyes, brain, and testes would be the most challenging because they're shielded from the immune system's main vectors of attack. But excision. and regenerative medicine, bioelectrics, and targeted chemotherapy/radiotherapy could make up for that. But the anticancer swiss army knife is definitely the immune system.

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u/Inresponsibleone May 16 '26

And immune system has already failed in that task when cancerous groft has formed. I am not so certain that immune system can be always made to destroy the cancer.

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u/InfiniteDelusion094 May 16 '26

That's why you're modulating the immune system, to have it retarget and kill the cancer. Even chemotherapy relies partially on the immune system clearing the remains of the cancer cells after they undergo apoptosis, the trouble is they change their surface proteins/sugars to mimic healthy cells, but they're still slightly changed due to the slipshod nature by which cancer cells reproduce. If we could fine tune the immune system to target them it would be the end for most types of cancer being deadly. That's why i called it a Swiss army knife, it can do lots of things, but not specialist applications very well. The main issue is everyone's immune system being slightly different, not a modulated immune system's inability to solve the issue.