why is it difficult to find a medicine for cancer?

Answer 1

Because cancer causes relatively rapid genetic mutations in your cells. There is no medicine to "fix" genetic material in the first place--and so coming up with one so highly adaptable that it can fix fast-occuring genetic mutations is difficult, to say the least.

Cancer isn't a chemical problem, and so a chemical solution (that is, medicine) is a tall order. Cancer is a problem on the microcellular level. Very difficult to treat. The best medicines so far are just medicines that try to poison the cancer out of existence. While this can be effective, it also poisons healthy body systems. So that's a major downfall of chemotherapy.

Answer 2

First, it isn't easy to just create a medicine off the shelf with a desired effect. Or you can just believe the conspiracy theory that a vaccine for cancer would not be profitable, and thus it isn't really being researched at all.

Give it a few more years, and one of the following things will happen: 1) it will be determined that many people will come to acquire cancer, and pharmacutical companies will begin releasing a cure, or 2) pharmacutical companies will eventually develop an innoculation that can be given to everyone which will not only cure cancer, but prevent it from ever returning. Similar to how small pox innoculations were given to children until the pandemic was averted.

Answer 3

Cancer is the mutatuion of the body's own cells to form a malignant, harmful growth within the body. It is very difficult to make a drug that will effect the mutated cells without destroying the normal cells around them, as well as all the cells in the body.Radiation and chemotherapy help, but are not the total answer to removing the cancer.

Answer 4

Because it is difficult to create an agent strong enough to kill the cancerous cells in your body without harming the healthy cells in your body. It is difficult to isolate the cancerous cells---in some cases more than others. They have been working on target agents for the past several years and I believe they're in the process of approving a drug that can do that in some kinds of cancer.

Answer 5

there is a cure for everything.

i'm not a against the government or anything but the gov't hides these medicines to prevent over-populating the world. thousands are born and die everyday. the poor would become poorer. there would be no jobs avaliable and so on...

but there is a cure.

Answer 6

As my dear brother said..not long before he passed away from cancer.. "Cancer is big business. The drug companies/doctors want to keep you just sick enough to keep coming back."

I so hate to say it like that..but its the governmental system we have.

Rest in peace Allen!

Answer 7

Just think about it..........If they found a cure...........all those big research hospitals, doctors and people who make their fortune from cancer would be out of a job.

Answer 8

There are alot of studies going on that will eventually find a cure

Answer 9

its exspensive they do have cures already for cancer.but if your not wealthy and live in united states you will never know about it.in germany, they can get rid of cancer.and 3 millon dollars. plus you have to sign a form telling no one

Answer 10

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