Cancer, do you believe there is a cure?

Answer 1

The medical community makes a lot of money on cancer, so they are in no great rush to make any cure public information.

As with anything, prevention is the key. Avoid all the things (like smoking) that have been proved to cause cancer. Eat healthy.

On a regular basis, take dietary supplements that include potent antioxidants. Good quality antioxidants have been scientifically proven to kill free radicals, which are caused by oxidation of the cells -- think of how a cut apple turns brown when oxygen touches it. Free radical molecules damage healthy cells in your body by stealing electrons. The damaged cells are commonly called cancerous cells.

In summary, antioxidants (good ones, not the cheap stuff) kill free radicals, which prevents them from attacking healthy cells to make cancerous ones.

Answer 2

Yes. There are cures for certain stages and types of cancer right now. It is just a matter of time before the research community cracks the codes to cure all cancers. People are surviving cancer now who would have died just 10 or 20 years ago. Almost 80% of childhood cancers now have a cure in sight with the goal to eradicate all childhood cancers.

We have been fighting my sons childhood cancer for 22 months and during this small amount of time we have seen newer treatments and more positive results for his type of sarcoma. His cancer is still grim statistic wise, but overall there has been progress, and that is a good thing. Although we will never be satisfied until this rotten disease is completely gone from every single child.

Support CureSeach http://www.curesearch.org which is dedicated to eliminating childhood cancer.

Answer 3

Some cancers are already easily cured. Skin cancers are the most obvious case in point here.

Any cancer that can be removed from the body early enough (before the spread of cancerous cells) can be cured.

The trouble occurs with
o Cancers that spread early (eg. melanoma)
o Cancers that are detected late (eg. ovarian cancer)
o Cancers that are already disseminated (eg. leukaemias)

When the cancer cells spread through the body, then it becomes much more difficult to find and remove them. It is currently impossible to do this cell by cell and so we have to wait and watch and see when they recur and then treat the recurrence.

There is currently research into immunological methods of finding and killing the cancer cells. This may well give us a "magic bullet" with which we can cure cancer. A recent article in the student BMJ discusses the idea of cancers as a disease of stem cells, arising from a single clone of cells and possibly being amenable to cure by immunological methods.

Answer 4

It depends where the cancer is. I lost my mother to cancer recently. She had colon and liver cancer and from the beginning we knew it was terminal but again my mother in law suffered from breast cancer and that was 15 years ago and she is still going strong. We should not give up hope eventually there is going to be a cure for all cancers.

Answer 5

Well there isnt a cure at the moment, your question is badly phrased.
Cancer happens because our own cells mutate and begin to replicate out of control, so there are lots of cells which clump together causing tumours. It is due to problems in our genetic code (DNA) which cause these cells to be improperly replicated (like getting the instruction manual wrong) As we are getting closer and closer to understanding, mapping and even controlling the human genetic code then yes, I think scientists will find a way to stop our cells from doing this. I heard of the possibility of monoclonal antibodies (genetically modified b cells which produce antibodies to a specific antigen, so they can be used to target and kill just cancerous cells) being used. The problem is that we have more and more carcinogens (cancer causing chemicals) in our daily life, from the food we eat to the air we breathe, so for now I think cancer will be an increasing danger for our health.

Answer 6

I recently lost my lovely mum to cancer. They had no cure for her. I would like to think that one day there will be a cure. Unfortunately the way we live our lives now, the pollution, the chemicals that are being sprayed on our food products, most things have become artificial and over processed.

Answer 7

No, as cancer takes on many forms and each individual case has to be handled differently.
I feel the success rate after treatment/medication will continue to improve in the coming years.
We have already seen a tremendous increase in the survival rate of cancer patients with new drug combinations and technology.

Answer 8

We all have cancer in us, it's true.
It's only when the cancer umm... activates, if you like, is when it becomes more serious.

So unless theres a way of physically or medically taking the cancer out or killing it while its still asleep then i assume theres no cure.

But doctors today are extremely good, so i'm hoping they'll find one way or another to prevent the causes of the cancer from even waking up and destroying your body.

Answer 9

well there isn't one that i know of at this moment, but if we keep giving money to the research people to fund finding a cure then u never know.
My fiancee has lost his granpa from bowel cancer in 2005 and then lost his gran lastyear to lung cancer, his mum is still battling breast cancer, she had a hystorectomy (not sure of spelling) last year, she is wanting reconstruction surgery done, but will have to wait untill she has lost a bit of weight, but i am pleased to report that she is doing well and spending time with her 8month old grandaughter, which she spoils.

Answer 10

yes, cancer is caused by a defect in an enzyme called P53 (natural tumor suppressor) which stops the cell reproduction and checks for errors, but when it is defective and theres an error in a specific gene that would have been found by P53 then it can divide uncontrollable, if there could be a cure it would have to be small enough to pass through the nuclear envelope to fix the tumor suppressor. which in the future could be a definite possibility.