2006-07-20 03:29:52 · 10 answers · asked by decaying_apple 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Eventually, most forms of cancer will have a cure. There may even be, someday, a treatment to prevent most kinds of cancer.
There is a lot of research going into cancer, to find out what causes it and how to treat it. Today scientists have a pretty good idea of what happens to a normal cell to turn it into a cancer cell. Many people are working on treatments for cancer. And I'm sure you probably know at least one person who had cancer, and survived.
The big question is: how long until we have a 'cure' for cancer? All we can do is look at the odds. Odds are it won't happen in the next 5 years, but probably within the lifetime of someone in their 20's. In the mean time, the treatments for cancer will get better, and fewer people will die from once deadly forms of cancer.
2006-07-20 03:40:36 · answer #1 · answered by kiick 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The national cancer institute in the u.s have a plan to 100% control cancer by 2015. I believe the americans have the knowledge to do this but here in england I think we would be well behind that by about 20 yrs.
If all of us put money into cancer research it would be sorted alot faster. Look at it as an investment in our lives. Its the cruelest disease ever as a guy I know had lost his wife to cancer aged 32, nobody should be dying of cancer at age.
2006-07-20 15:35:38 · answer #2 · answered by ADH 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh jesus there is no cure for cancer. You are right about one thing. Drug companies develop treatments and not cures. Thats why the government should keep investing in the NIH. The NIH budget hasn't gone up in about....6 years or so.
Cancer sucks because you're not trying to kill anything foreign. Someday we'll get there but I doubt there will be a silver bullet. It will come down to specific treatments for specific cancers.
2006-07-20 10:36:33 · answer #3 · answered by Franklin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
oh there is a cure for it already, but the pharmaceutical companies are making so much money off the treatment for it that everyone is willing to pay for, why cure it? Same thing for aids.
2006-07-20 10:33:54 · answer #4 · answered by A.Marie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are so many different cancers, there is one type of cancer cell that never dies the hela cell.
It is still living outside the body in a lab nealy sixty or seventy years after the woman whose body it was taken from died!
2006-07-21 15:05:13 · answer #5 · answered by DOC 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. Research is BIG business for the Drug companies. NO major ailment will ever be cured. Money is the end all and be all of their existence.
2006-07-20 10:35:10 · answer #6 · answered by Quietman40 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They call every thing cancer now! so it will probably last forever!
2006-07-20 10:33:47 · answer #7 · answered by Macka 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
like all disease will will evolve and get worse. if we cure one kind there's going to be a different type just round the corner. it will get used to the treatment we use now so it will always be around.
2006-07-20 10:36:36 · answer #8 · answered by rock_style 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its gonna get worse because of our lifestyles and diet
2006-07-20 10:33:59 · answer #9 · answered by welsh_darkhorse 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wait for the cure soon folk!
2006-07-20 10:41:09 · answer #10 · answered by ngonde 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋