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supified t1_iww8v2n wrote

Reply to comment by HDSpiele in Vaccine doubles brain tumour survival rate in medical breakthrough by tonymmorley

You're really overly optimistic. Short answer. We cannot cure aging. Even if we could, we cannot cure these diseases yet either. Imagine the richest person alive, what they wouldn't do to live longer (not even forever just longer) and yet, rich people die just like everyone else. There are efforts being made to cure diseases and aging, but they're not there yet. Also curing aging would not cure someone with cancer, it might lower prevalence if we kept everyone at a young enough age, but cancer even strikes children, so curing aging doesn't equal curing cancer.

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HDSpiele t1_iwwbhrw wrote

That is true but one of the biggest risk factors for cancer is age so if we can reverse the biological clock cancer would become very very rare. Also from what I read is that futurologists believe (no idea what that is I asume some kind of scientist) that we might be able to make an affordable cure for aging by 2050.

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