| Index | Recent Threads | Unanswered Threads | Who's Active | Guidelines | Search |
 |
World Community Grid Forums
Category: Completed Research
Forum: Help Conquer Cancer
Thread: What/How doe this Project work with other Cancer projects? |
| No member browsing this thread |
|
Thread Status: Active Total posts in this thread: 3
|
|
| Author |
|
|
ericinboston
Senior Cruncher Joined: Jan 12, 2010 Post Count: 258 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
|
Hi all. I have been crunching work units for this project. I am interested in hearing a non-technical, laymens-terms answer to how this particular project works in conjunction with the overall goal to cure cancer?
----------------------------------------I know there are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of "projects" around the globe that are trying to cure cancer. Is there 1 master project out there that all the other projects work with? If, for example, this Help Conquer Cancer project suddenly received 10million computers tomorrow crunching data, would the project 1)be able to handle the newly found power? 2)actually solve all cancers? It's hard to put my thoughts into text but I'm trying to understand exactly how this project may succeed in its goals...but does its goals actually equate to a cure for cancer or is the goal just a STEP towards curing cancer? If the goal of this project is X (some technical mumbo jumbo that I do not understand), does that actually mean there is a cure for all cancers? An analogy would be a project to build a home...is the Project really trying to build a home 100% or is it just trying to get the perfect cement foundation and then pass the baton on to others to start building walls, then plumbers, then electricians, then roofers, etc? Thank you so much in advance. -Eric  |
||
|
|
sk..
Master Cruncher http://s17.rimg.info/ccb5d62bd3e856cc0d1df9b0ee2f7f6a.gif Joined: Mar 22, 2007 Post Count: 2324 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
|
|
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Well the reason that is multiple projects is that there is no one cancer but thousands. Some quite rare. A number of cancers there are cures that are easily done by surgery or chemotherapy or radiation treatment, others are quite expensive with low success rates.
So this necessitates a number of different projects especially since a number of cancers affect different groups of people while not touching other groups. A number of cancers only affect children and are particular nasty such as cancers that attack the brain. Plus cancers have different causes. Several cancers are caused by viruses. The HPV vaccine for example protects against the virus strains of hpv that cause several cancers. Other cancers are caused by certain mutations of the genetic code, while still others are caused by chemical compounds etc. This makes any effort to make a cure incredibly complicated since there would not be one cure but thousands. When you understand this you understand why there has no been no easily admissible cure. |
||
|
|
|