If we can put man on the moon...why cant we find a cure for cancer?

Answer 1

I think we do have a cure for cancer, but people are soo greedy for money that they don't put it out. Cuz like...a cure would be a one time treatment, but to slow down symptoms like we do now, you need to continuously keep buying medicines and stuff. So in the long run, they make more money that way.

Answer 2

"A cure" for cancer?

You sound like you think there is one cure for all cancer. Cancer is scores of different diseases. You might as well try to find a vaccination to prevent all diseases known to man.

The space program got a lot of financial support because we thought that if the Russians got to the moon first, communism would rule the world.

We have a vaccine for HPV which causes cervical cancer. We also have an administration is bowing to pressure from the religious right who thinks that vaccinating girls will turn them into wanton sluts.

The was behind the space program, but shys away from any medical research that might make the bible thumpers twitchy.

Answer 3

Putting man on the moon has a set of problems that do not change and can be addressed and overcome. Cancer is one giant variable. How do you get rid of the cancer without killing the patient. Is it gone for good? Will it be a different kind of cancer that will not respond the expected way to treatments, etc etc. Still too many variables.

Answer 4

Because cancer cells are just a mutated form of regular body cells. We havent found anything that can specifically target the mutated cells.

The current treatmentrs we have kill ALL cells around the targeted area.

I believe the cure for cancer is for prevention of people getting it.

To get to the moon you only need primitive technologies like engines and such.

Answer 5

Because they're two completely different fields of science that aren't related in ANY way?

Physics, chemistry/biology. We make advances in both all the time, but something like a cure for cancer just isn't going to happen in a snap. Physics is more mathematical - we can control that. Biology and chemistry, when trying to make drugs...It's a guessing game. You can't just mathematically determine the cure for cancer.

Answer 6

Because landing on the moon was a hard problem. Curing cancer is *much* harder.

P.S. anybody who suggests that doctors have a cure, but are witholding it or destroyed it out of greed, is a moron! Normally, I don't get so upset about stupid claims ... but my mother died of lung cancer.

Answer 7

cancer is like a virus but it can't be spread like viruses so we have things that can sometimes cure cancer for good or for a long time but as we create things that fight cancer more effectively the cancer changes and finds a way to fight the new treatment and cancer kills important cells that can destroy it so it becomes stronger because there aren't things to destroy it in the body

Answer 8

We have cures for some forms of cancer.

Answer 9

cure for this disease "cancer"was invented much earliers by scientist but they(superpowers) destroyed the formula to save drug making factories.
its sad, but true
if the cure for the cancer disease could have been so easy ,then why people will buy expensive medicines?so they destroyed the formula to make more and more money by medinices factry and expensive treatment

Answer 10

Because putting a man on the moon is really really easy, and finding tumors and killing them is like finding an informer in a back of robbers.
(sorry just saw reservoir dogs =P)