Timeline for With a software engineering bachelor's (BE), how can I work on finding a cure for cancer?
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| Jul 14, 2023 at 21:37 | comment | added | emory | I have also read research that 100% of ultra old men have prostate cancer. Most men die long before they reach ultra old status. I like to think that society is using my computer skills for betterment but if all ultra old people have cancer then my meager efforts are actually causing people to live longer and are actually raising the cancer rate. Of the 1M people Trump killed through inaction, a bunch were going to get cancer. He cured them! | |
| Jul 14, 2023 at 21:16 | comment | added | emory | @EarlGrey if OP has cancer it is probably too late. Non smokers and non drinkers do get cancer. It is not just lifestyle. However cancer alley exists. So a huge part of "curing" or delaying cancer is not obviously cancer prevention but pollution reduction. It is very complex. | |
| Jul 14, 2023 at 14:08 | answer | added | Tristan Bailey | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 13, 2023 at 6:43 | answer | added | Jumboman | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 12, 2023 at 23:15 | answer | added | Simon Crase | timeline score: 1 | |
| S Jul 12, 2023 at 20:00 | history | suggested | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 12, 2023 at 19:44 | answer | added | TheFoss | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 12, 2023 at 14:59 | comment | added | Sixtyfive | +1 on Ander's comment. Basically, at the moment there's a tendency towards the notion that cancer as such is likely to be inherently incurable. As for the question, you'll be welcomed with open arms if you're good at visualisations and/or simulations. | |
| Jul 12, 2023 at 14:27 | comment | added | EarlGrey | @emory OP would like to work towards finding a cure for cancer, not finding a cure for their cancer. Additionally, the number of non-smokers and non-drinkers having throat or lung cancer should tell you a thing or two about the meaningfulness of reducing cancer simply to one's lifestyle... | |
| Jul 12, 2023 at 14:25 | comment | added | EarlGrey | computational biology is a huge field. It even spill into SE comunity, see for example this question: mattermodeling.stackexchange.com/questions/10218/… | |
| Jul 12, 2023 at 13:55 | answer | added | afaulconbridge | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 12, 2023 at 1:10 | comment | added | emory | @AustinHemmelgarn There is a 6th option. Earn a comfortable living. Eat fruits and vegetables. Get your covid-19 shot. Minimize driving. It is boring but curing cancer requires small changes in behavior from everyone. | |
| Jul 11, 2023 at 21:19 | answer | added | N A McMahon | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 11, 2023 at 4:38 | history | edited | fordcars | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 11, 2023 at 3:57 | comment | added | encryptoferia | you definitely need to build a connection with someone in cancer research field, also do you seek financial reward from this or purely a side hobby? that answer would greatly differ depending on your skill set. | |
| Jul 11, 2023 at 1:41 | comment | added | Nelson | Tuning AI systems to handle cancer research is also possible. If you have the drive, you should talk to student advisors on how to progress in this path. If they can't answer you, they can definitely find people that can. | |
| Jul 10, 2023 at 19:45 | comment | added | Austin Hemmelgarn | There’s a fifth option you had not listed: Contribute actively to the development of major projects used for this type of reasearch, such as AMORPHA, BOINC, or EMBOSS. That approach requires much less knowledge of biotech and bioinfomatics and thus would be easier to get into, though you would also be making a much less direct impact. | |
| Jul 10, 2023 at 15:23 | comment | added | Ander Biguri | A "cure" for cancer? Unlikely. But improving treatments for cancer? Much. Radiotherapy nowadays is basically very advanced software and physics. I am an electrical engineering that did a PhD on cancer treatment, in particular computational methods for 4D imaging with tomography. | |
| Jul 10, 2023 at 14:27 | answer | added | JackRed | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jul 10, 2023 at 10:36 | answer | added | Xophmeister | timeline score: 15 | |
| Jul 10, 2023 at 9:29 | answer | added | Rachel C | timeline score: 5 | |
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