We don't yet know how cancer can be cured. Redgarding the immune system, any of us has what could be called cancer cells growing inside of us at any given time. Our immune system effectively deals with these. The problem with cancer that grows is that it has come up with a way to elude the immune system. It has a way of hiding the proteins that would flag it as something that needs to be dealt with by the immune system, or another way to defeat the immune system. Most cancer medicines work by exposing the entire body or just the area of cancer to a toxic agent such as medicine or irradiation in order to kill the cancer. Since cancer grows so quickly it is weaker than healthy cells so it will die more easily, in theory anyway. Some medicines inhibit a tumor's ability to grow blood vessels around itself for nourishment and it dies essentially of starvation.
I hope this helps.
2007-02-04 19:54:34
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answered by Some Guy 6
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I don't think there will ever be any one universal cure for all cancers. Each type of cancer is caused by different things. If there was a cure for cancer, then why do the employees and family members of these drug companies still develop and die of cancer. I know that if I knew there was a cure and someone in my family had it, I would blow the whistle.
2016-05-24 15:40:12
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answered by Barbara 4
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You have asked a complex question. This in part depends on your belief of how the medical community sees cancer and its treatment , there are many differeing opinons. I was a former chemo nurse and am also a cancer survivor. ( I chose not to take chemo but that is not the answer for everyone)
Chemo kills cancers cells but unfortunately it kills healthy cells too. It wipes out the white blood cells we need to fight infection. Depending on the body's own immune system will depend on the result. The body sends out fighter cells to combat disease but sometimes they are not strong enough. Our food and environment today, have probably 100 times more chemicals than even 20 years ago. This weakens our ability to fight disease. The medicines or chemo are not for preventing cancer but only an attempt to cure. The best way to fight cancer/disease is to research healthly living, diet, exercise and checking food labels. Bioengineered foods also have reduced our ability to fight disease. I would yahoo or google immune system and natural disease fighters to see how best to build your immune system. Below is a reference for natural info not an endorsment
2007-02-11 07:20:24
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answered by commonsense2265 4
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I don't know all the answers to your questions. However, there is a lot of buzz going on that there is a possible cure for cancer.
I am only telling you this, because it might be more important to you than the answers you were looking for.
The drug is called: Dichloroacetate (DCA)
It has been tested on a rat and shown to reduce the cancer safely by 70% in three weeks (if I am not mistaken).
The drug is safe and already approved for metabolism disorders. It is very cheap. The theory or hypothesis behind why it may work is because cancer cells mitochondria do not work properly. So, they feed off of external sources to accommodate this defect. However, the DCA, being a drug for metabolism, may switch ON the cancer cell mitochondria.. and this begins a countdown, of sorts, for the cancer cell to die naturally.
I don't want to bring hopes up too much, but it looks like a great opportunity
Look at the link in my reference section to see a few sources. One has a link to a news report in Canada on this new discovery.
2007-02-07 11:42:13
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answered by James K 2
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In 1990, I had Hodgkin's Lymphoma, stage 3-B, but I've survived. My doctors were great people, but they were limited to surgery, chemo and radiation by profitable AMA treatment policy. During the year in treatment, I started learning about alternative medicine. I'm a retired engineer, and this is what I've pieced together--our IMMUNE SYSTEMS become weakened by poor nutrition, lack of exercise and reduced oxygen. Once that happens, our body becomes vulnerable to common STRESSORS. Stressors can be environmental, like viruses, heavy metals, pesticides, food additives, electromagnetic waves or pollution. They can be internal things like emotional or job stress, or poisonous people in our lives. Aging is also a contributing factor. So this means:
WEAK IMMUNE SYSTEM + STRESSORS = DISEASE (cancer, diabetes, heart disease, etc.)
Our bodies have 60 trillion--yes, trillion--cells, and there are always some mutating into cancer cells, but a healthy immune system kills them before they have a chance to get a foothold in the body.
It takes a LONG time, usually, or a high level of stressors, to weaken the immune system to the point where it won't do its job, but once cancer has formed, it will generally spread rapidly.
THIS IS IMPORTANT! There are ways to BEAT cancer that are currently being used in Europe and around the world, and there are some great books on the subject. I know because I've read about 50 of them from cover to cover. Here's a list of the best ones. Some are out of print and getting hard to find--
"The Cure for All Cancers", ISBN 0963632825
"A Cancer Therapy", ISBN 0882681052
"Oxygen Therapies", ISBN 0962052701
"Hydrogen Peroxide--Medical Miracle", ISBN 1885236077
"The Natural Cure for Cancer--Germanium", ISBN 0533071410
"Killing Cancer", ISBN 0705000966
"Natural Cures 'They' Don't Want You to Know About", ISBN 0975599518
I know of people whose cancer has 'spontaneously remitted' (WENT AWAY for no known reason) AFTER they went on programs of herbs and nutrition to restart their immune systems.
You and your family must look out for yourselves to stand a chance of being healthy. This is not a joke, and I'm not selling anything--just trying to help.
I am using the things I learned in those books right now to fight off a second infestation of cancer. I've been at it for over a year now, and think I'm going to make it. Use what works for you, and pass on your success. Best of luck.
2007-02-09 07:05:54
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answered by Dorothy and Toto 5
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I really dont think the Doctors,pharmaceutical companies want to find a cure,they would lose alot of money.You might want to check this site out.www.healthfreedom.info Its not about drugs,chemo,radiation,surgery.Its all natural.
2007-02-11 13:11:43
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answered by reikigirl8 3
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