When I was diagnosed with prostate cancer over a year ago it was suggested to me that I gather as much information about the disease as could.
I'm an information junkie.
I went slightly nuts.
Like everyone else, want a cure for cancer.
Reading over the last couple of months I began to wonder if we already had it, and that it was not so much a drug, or series of drugs, but a process.
We already treat more than one cancer with what are effectively the same therapies - our cancer and breast cancer for example.
There have been many more introductions of individualised therapies and multiple therapies working together.
A key to developing this appears to be AI. The Large Language Model that is the underpinning of most AI's right now collects information to a huge level.
Once you have the information in there, getting what you need is a matter of asking the right questions. I've been doing some practicing on the commercial AI's I have access to, and it's harder than you think. It's really easy when you know the answer already, but some what more difficult when you don't That's when it becomes a conversation.
So back to the thought that led me to write this.
Is cancer going to be defeated by a process with common rules but different actual treatments?
Do we already know the answers but just have to ask the right questions?
* For the slightly odd amongst us, the answer is NOT 42.
Hello Steve mstev2
When I was little (when everything was black and white - not sepia!) my dad worked with big mainframe computers at the development stage. They added the football results for the past 25 years, ran the machine and it picked 8 draws for the following Saturday. The staff put rather a lot of money on that weeks football coupon - and got 1 draw!!
Modern technology eh!!
There is of course the school of thought that big pharma have cured cancer but they won't develop the cure as it would make them redundant - 
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Life's good though.
A penny for your thoughts.
Kind Regards - Brian.
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Hello Liz (johnam)
I am sat on my balcony in Turkey having returned from having a Turkish Breakfast - it only took 2.5 hours. 
, nothing else to eat today then!!
I hope all goes well for you both this afternoon.
Best wishes - Brian.
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