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Quote by: JohnMK  "Cures" are orders upon orders of magnitude more difficult to find than treatments. I suggest that if a government rallied citizens to disproportionately weight investment into cures, and not treatments, that we would be less healthy. |
Absolutely. We require maintenance drugs while we are exploring the alternative
"cures." And speaking of
"cures", we will probably see this come in phases rather than in one
"miracle cure" for any one disease. For example, we have seen some success in radiation when it comes to certain tumors in cancer but there are other more promising alternatives on the horizon when it comes to eliminating the existence and growth of cancer cells. Without going into cutting edge therepeutic treatments for cancer, suffice it to say, radiation works well for some now, but in the future, there undoubtedly will be treatments that will replace radiation and increase the effectiveness of the
"cure."