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The problem with these stories is that they are almost always based on very preliminary research that seems extremely promising, but rarely pans out. Most cancer treatments that are designed to work on many or even most cancers end up being effective for just a few.
This is no surprise, because “cancer” isn’t actually a disease. What we like to call cancer is really a collection of vastly different diseases, with different causes, treatments, and outcomes, that we lump together for convenience because they all have a a few similarities. Saying that you can “cure cancer” is a nonsense statement — it’s like claiming to be able to cure all bacterial infections, or all chronic illness, with a single treatment.
So most of these claims are based on tests done to cells in a jar, or rats in a cage, because when it comes to real-life people it turns out that very few cancer cures actually work. Only a small fraction of these pre-clinical studies — studies done as a proof of concept, demonstrating that the treatment works in theory before trials in people begin — make it to human testing, and even then usually treat just one or two types of cancer*.
The latest news about AEBi is no different. When you look for the evidence behind their enormous claims, you find almost nothing backing them up at all. They have no human studies, and in fact appear to have not yet published a single paper on their supposedly groundbreaking research. The only thing that is currently supporting the claim of curing cancer within a year is a series of slides on their website referring to work done in cells in petri dishes and rodents in a lab.
This is interesting research, but remember: less than 5% of cancer treatments that are tested in pre-clinical research make it to patients. This is unsurprising, because developing cancer treatments is astonishingly hard. There are hundreds of hoops to jump through between successfully killing cancer cells in a petri dish and curing cancer in actual living human beings.