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brazzy on Dec 6, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Sad News for the Opscode Community

The point is: cancer is really a whole family of diseases, and it's really unlikely that a single treatment will work on all of them.

melling on Dec 6, 2013 | [–]

That's pretty well known at this point.

That doesn't mean the problem(s) can't be solved. Early detection, and identifying exactly what type of cancer a person has would have a lot of value, for example.

jamesrcole on Dec 6, 2013 | [–]

nobody said anything about a single treatment.

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