Comment by crustyoldhuman

17 hours ago

I feel like I see this headline ever 2 months. it's like cancer research. lots of fluff, never any progress. then you get the alien people saying it's cuz they're hiding aliens. i'm exhausted.

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fnordpiglet  4 hours ago

It’s hard to believe in 2026 someone would bemoan that nothing has progressed in cancer research. Cancer has no single cure, but survival durations are absurdly crazy for most common cancers compared to 30 years ago. Current treatments are like science fiction and are extraordinarily effective. The horizon is remarkable as well. It’s genuinely surprising to hear someone say “never any progress” re: cancer.

I’ve nothing to say about Egyptian tombs though.

dekhn  13 hours ago

While the popular press does bungle nearly all cancer research findings, the last 20 years have been unbelievably productive in cancer treatment. No, we haven't and aren't going to cure cancer any time soon.

  • BurningFrog  7 hours ago

    The thing is that "cancer" is thousands of separate diseases with similar traits.

    We'll never cure all of the at once, which is what "cure cancer" means, but we've been curing plenty of them lately!

    • timr  6 hours ago

      If by “curing”, you mean, “extending some indirect measurement that doesn’t correlate with survival”, then sure. Lots of those, usually backed by tiny, poorly controlled trials.

      Daraxonrasib was a rare exception. Most new cancer drugs are expensive and of dubious efficacy. Even daraxonrasib has a rather underwhelming life extension benefit, and huge side effects. But there’s no alternative, so people take what they can get.

malux85  13 hours ago

Put your phone down, put your laptop down. Go to the park without your devices and lay on the grass under a tree.

Hear the sound of trees. The smell of nature. Feel the sun warming your face.

You mind will trick you, convince you "youre too busy for this", "youre hungry", "your back hurts you cant lie down", "you should be doing X", anything to not stay under the tree, dont resist those thoughts, just observe them as they fly by, but take no action on them.

Rest without guilt is a trait all masters must develop once they get past the adrenaline urgency phase of their skill mastery.

Dont take your devices, dont take a book, just sit, 3 hours minimum.

Go human, you are amazing!

  • plasma_beam  13 hours ago

    Sounds amazing. Until the ants start crawling on me, my elbows itch from the grass, I hear planes flying overhead, an ambulance nearby, a souped out honda civic or some loud car in the distance, a freight train passing…that’s my backyard experience. It was a nice five minutes though :)