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There is a serious misunderstanding about cancer, it's not something that can be cured permanently, simply put, it is the error correction of the body going wrong, which is more likely with age, fitness and exposure to carcinogenic material. The first we can do nothing about, the second is within our power, the third really requires politicians to hold commercial interests in check.

@Greg2935, biological age is a malleable thing, we can change it. But in order to make a dent, we need therapies order(s) of magnitude better than current possibilities. For that, we need huge biomedical research.

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@kubofhromoslav I'm sorry but that simply not true, cell division results in a shorter dna strand in the telomeres, you can only divide a cell a certain number of times before you start losing bits of the useful dna. There is no way to replace the lost dna. Furthermore, errors occur during normal cell division that will eventually lead to cancer or cell inviability and this is why we reproduce, it's the ultimate error correction.

@Greg2935, I am well aware of some problems and that solutions are difficult to create. So I am advocating for more research rather sooner than later.

Telomeres can be relenghtened with brief reactivation of telomerase. Alternatively, fresh cells derived from induced adult stem cells, multiplicated in bioreactor can be introduced to body to circumvent that.

@Greg2935, indeed, it is hard to correct damaged DNA. But it is possible that beyond cancer, cell core DNA damage is not life threatening in current lifespans. See the book "Ending Aging" by Aubrey de Grey and Michael Rae for deep argument about this.

Still, cancer needs to be treated in some way. And when we will be able to rejuvenate other parts of our bodies, risk of cancer is expected to decrease. Still, not full win but nice progress.

@Greg2935, we already can rejuvenate epigenome in lab. So DNA stays the same but it's switches are as of younger version. That helps a lot!

Human trials are happening around this time - see Life Bioscience of Dr. David Sinclair.

@Greg2935, and finally a food for thought: humans are born biologically very young, despite they are created from cells from parents who are significantly older. How? Can we somehow reproduce this phenomenon that nature is doing already for billions of years and all of us has it in our own DNA?