Cancer Cure Within 10 Years?

[Zacs-Master]

Pretty bold claims:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/09/20/microsoft-will-solve-cancer-within-10-years-by-reprogramming-dis/

[jim360]

People criticising this because it's Microsoft are surely ignoring the biggest benefit yet. Now if something goes wrong, all we have to do is turn the body off and then back on again.

[Peter Pedant]

yeah why not - cure within 10y

the fact so far they have always been wrong is neither here nor there

[Zacs-Master]

'They have always been wrong'

First time Microsoft (or any large commercial organisation that I know of) have taken this approach.

[Zacs-Master]

Jim - the article I referenced was Jan 2015 which is fairly recent.

[jim360]

Yes, I saw the source after I'd first posted. At a first glance, it appears that my argument is close to that presented in the article -- that is, you can never entirely deal with the underlying risk factor (so that some poor *** will just get cnacer through awful luck), but that isn't an argument for not trying to improve lifestyle conditions and reduce the risk.

[mibn2cweus]

From 'random' selection through reasoned deliberation, life has always been about 'beating the odds'.

[theprof]

It's rubbish.

[ivor4781]

wonder what the annual payment to Microsoft would be to keep you alive, default the payment and ya dead

[weecalf]

The cure will I think come from natural remedies .The reason I think that is that those who had the disease centuries ago should have has the same chance of survival as the present day sufferers .Such a terrible thing to come into anyones life .Thoughts and prayers are always with those affected that I know .