For the first time, the elimination of a cancer is within our reach

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Just in time for the end of humanity! Or the is that the cure?
"a cancer" is not one thing, so you can tell the headline is full of shit already, even within the same organs the cancers are different.
This is about cervical cancer, which we can help avoid by avoiding things known to cause it, like preventing HPV with HPV vaccines. This isn't eliminating cancer in any way, at best preventing it
- Wrong.
  Note the headline does not claim a cure to a cancer because it is not, instead it eliminates the vector from which the cancer occurs.
  When enough people are vaccinated against HPV, the virus cannot spread. The cancers that are caused by HPV cease to exist.
  Eventually, the vaccine will not be required.
  
  He read it as "elimination of cancer" first, read only the headline and then got really upset without reading the article because cancer is not just one thing (true!), and has now noticed, and for some reason edited it to retcon into getting equally mad claiming "a cancer is not just one thing," which is total nonsense, but superior I guess to just admitting he made a mistake.
  HPV causes ~~99%~~ 95% of cases of cervical cancer. The article is mostly talking about outreach to the third world sharing things like HPV vaccines and saving hundreds of thousands of lives. The guy's just yelling and being wrong. And, of course, some other lemmy.world yelling idiots are upvoting him, because they love yelling and being wrong. Just ignore him.
  After this and a group of people from lemmy.world who got really mad earlier today about a "paywalled" article I posted that didn't, in fact, have a paywall, I think I may defederate my systems from lemmy.world. It's honestly just too dumb an environment to produce useful comments. PugJesus and !news@lemmy.world and the cat pictures are the only good things on it at this point, I think.
  Edit: It was more than one person who got mad about the "paywall," I think it was at least 8 people.
  Edit: I don’t know where I got 99%, the WHO says 95%.
  
  Lmao, HPV is not the only way you get cervical cancer. "Elimination of a cancer" is just not true. Maybe one specific type of cervical cancer.
  It's like saying we can cure colon cancer if we just stopped eating at McDonald's. It's simply not true.
  I didn't use the word "cure" in my comment.
  Edit: Lmao was for the dwight level "Wrong" like youre unidan or something.

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