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I know perfectly well, yes. Well, now, the vaccine, however, will be limited to specific types of cancer. There are so many different kinds.
That may happen in the beginning, but I hope that eventually there will be enough different viruses associated with enough different cancers so that you'll get an anti-cancer vaccine that will prevent different types of cancer. Now, that we can't be sure of, but that's what we can hope.
Well, is it thought currently that viruses are the real cause of cancer or all forms of cancer?
Well, this is what we would hope because it's the easiest way to prevent it in the end -- a vaccine.
Yes, but sometimes the easy way...
Does not work. We'll find that out in the next four months, maybe sooner. Maybe not, though. It may take a long time to get a vaccine and a long time for people to be willing to take it, take the vaccine, because I can hear them saying that it will have terrible side effects or something. Very bad , as you can imagine.
But cancer is such a terrible disease that people I think people would welcome it.
It depends on how the publicity falls.
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