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Re:There's no limit to longevity, says study that revives hu... by EamonnMR on Friday June 29, 2018 @10:50PM (#17429246)
Humans have a 1/3 lifetime cancer risk, and I suspect it will go up if we extend lifetimes. It's a wall to longevity. If we get past that wall, there's still proteopathys. There's no real approach to curing those yet (at least not that I'm aware of.)
Re:There's no limit to longevity, says study that revives hu... by magduf on Monday July 02, 2018 @12:32PM (#17443077)
>Humans have a 1/3 lifetime cancer risk, and I suspect it will go up if we extend lifetimes. It's a wall to longevity.

No, it's not. Cancer is just a form of malfunction of cellular machinery, and as such, can certainly be mitigated or cured at some point. There's already lots of promising research in eliminating it, such as by re-purposing viruses to program the body's immune system to recognize and eliminate the cancerous cells.

It might require artificial intervention, but I believe cancer will be mostly eliminated before too long. And artificial intervention shouldn't be a problem: we have to do this on all our other machines too, we just call it "repair" or "maintenance". There's no such thing as a machine which never needs maintenance from an external source.

Re:There's no limit to longevity, says study that revives hu... by JamesBarney on Saturday June 30, 2018 @02:49AM (#17429809)
Why do you think cancer is undefeatable? The risk of cancer rises substantially with age, and much of the increase in risk is probably due to the immune system malfunctioning.
Re:There's no limit to longevity, says study that revives hu... by EamonnMR on Saturday June 30, 2018 @07:40AM (#17430481)
We aren't there yet.
Re:There's no limit to longevity, says study that revives hu... by ethbro on Saturday June 30, 2018 @12:46PM (#17431504)
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-breast-c...

Oncology + new genetic tools (just sequencing, not even CRISPR/CAS9) is making amazing progress.

Things that would have been a death sentence 20 years ago now have reasonably hopeful mortality rates.