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Originally posted by Flatwoods
Just imagine for a moment what the world would be like if cancer were cured. Millions - possibly billions - of people who would otherwise die wouldn't, and the worldwide population would skyrocket. You'd see people living well past 100 years, maybe to 150, 200, and beyond. New and severe limits to human reproduction would have to be brutally enforced - the population control policies of China would seem mild by comparison.
What is most horrifying is that while cancer would no longer exist, most of the other ailments and difficulties of old age would. An enormous amount of mankind's resources, time, and energy would have to be devoted to caring for the increasing multitudes of elderly who, without cancer, would continue to breathe. I say breathe because, with bodies so emaciated and frail, you wouldn't call them living.
If you think about it, a cure for cancer may turn out to be the cruelest invention ever devised.
[edit on 29-6-2009 by Flatwoods]
Originally posted by ShadowLife
Can it kill all kinds of cancer? Would human cancer even kill a mouse?
Anyway, it SOUNDS good. Maybe, just maybe, it will be true and the people will be able to get it. And it will be easy to make and treat to somebody so it wont be too expensive.
If they dont release it. Maybe one good doctor will some how get some of it, find out how to replicate it, and be a roaming doctor who treats patients with cancer.
Or open his own little business to treat cancer people.
Now we just need a way to cure diarrhea. Since it is more responible for more deaths then AIDS!!!
-Shadow
Originally posted by daddyroo45
Astounding news. This could open up a whole new speciality in medicine.
This thread gets a flag,star, and a bump
Originally posted by Flatwoods
Just imagine for a moment what the world would be like if cancer were cured. Millions - possibly billions - of people who would otherwise die wouldn't, and the worldwide population would skyrocket. You'd see people living well past 100 years, maybe to 150, 200, and beyond. New and severe limits to human reproduction would have to be brutally enforced - the population control policies of China would seem mild by comparison.
What is most horrifying is that while cancer would no longer exist, most of the other ailments and difficulties of old age would. An enormous amount of mankind's resources, time, and energy would have to be devoted to caring for the increasing multitudes of elderly who, without cancer, would continue to breathe. I say breathe because, with bodies so emaciated and frail, you wouldn't call them living.
If you think about it, a cure for cancer may turn out to be the cruelest invention ever devised.
[edit on 29-6-2009 by Flatwoods]