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kind: — → problem
year: — → 1971
statement: — → Can cancer be reliably prevented, detected early and cured?

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+title: Cancer

+kind: problem

+status: partial

+year: 1971

+statement: Can cancer be reliably prevented, detected early and cured?

+space: chronic-disease

+---

+Cancer is hundreds of diseases. Some once-fatal cancers are now usually curable, including childhood leukemia, testicular cancer and Hodgkin lymphoma. Immunotherapy and CAR-T therapy produce durable remissions in some patients. Metastatic solid tumors remain mostly incurable.

+## Sources

+- [Wikipedia: Cancer research](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_research)

+[[Space:chronic-disease|Chronic disease]] · [[Continent:medicine|Medicine]]

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Cancer is hundreds of diseases. Some once-fatal cancers are now usually curable, including childhood leukemia, testicular cancer and Hodgkin lymphoma. Immunotherapy and CAR-T therapy produce durable remissions in some patients. Metastatic solid tumors remain mostly incurable.

Sources

Wikipedia: Cancer research

Chronic disease · Medicine