If you found the cure for Cancer would you tell anyone??

Question

We were talking in my biology class about cancer and if someone found the cure their name would be famous for ever, but probably wouldn't make any money because the Gov't would take it and send it staight to Africa. Does the US care more about us or Africa?So what do you think?

Answer 1

hell, yes. just lost my mom to cancer last month, and if i could keep anyone from going what she went thru, i would surely do that.

Answer 2

Many if not most scientists are not banking on an outright "cure" for cancer. It would be like trying to reverse evolution. Cancer is caused by cell mutations that grow faster than the parent tissue they came from. After a while the mutant cells mutate some more and you are left with several different cells that are mutations of mutations, and so on.

Instead of trying to cure it outright (which may be impossible) another idea is to try and make it a manageable disease. It is easier to slow the spread of cancer than to stop it dead in its tracks.

Early detection is important, but mostly up to the patient. A doctor cannot tell if you are experiencing the begginnig of cancer if he or she doesn't see you.

Another point is prevention. Actually most cancers are unnessecary because they are caused by smoking. sunburn, overeating.

Very possiblely over the next 10 years or so we can minimize the risk of contracting cancer in the first place via prevention. Early detection may give patients more, better, and easier treatment options, that could keep it from spreading to far, and going out of control.

A magic bullet is not in the works, but prevention, early detection, and treatments that manage cancer are improving all the time.

All as a result of 1000's of cancer researchers, not one person.

This is going to have to be a group effort to help prevent, detect, and manage this disease. I doubt that there will one person who single handidly conquers the whole thing all at once.

Answer 3

You know, the cure for cancer won't be found in somebody's backyard. Cancer research is extremely costly, because you need all sorts of things to make new drugs, find new active biological molecules, or even to find out if something is working or not (which by the way, you cannot try on humans, since when you use something for the first time, you don't know if it is toxic).

It also involves a whole lot of people, not just one person. The person who makes the new drugs or finds out a new molecule in a natural extract (a chemist), does not necesseraly understand how to test it (which by the way can be quite complicated). The process of drug discovery is much more complex than just "finding out something".

So basically no one person have or will ever "find a cure" for cancer. It is an ongoing effort (in which, I assure you there has been tremendous progress) involving thousands of scientists whom have to communicate and use each other's understanding. And most scientists thrive on grants (or money from share holders in case of pharmas); this money will be attributed to anyone who publicise an important finding. And I've yet to know a scientist who doesn't want celebrity and more money for his/her research.

But I don't understand your part about africa. Is it because you think that more money is invested in AIDS research for africa than for cancer ? If that is the case, let's rectify things. There are billion dollars spent each year for cancer research that is by no way applicable to people of africa because the medication is too costly to make. The efforts to make affordable medication for AIDS and malaria are very feeble, and most of the time the result of a single private citizen (or NGOs) instead of governments.

Answer 4

If you found the cure for cancer, you would win the Nobel Prize for medicine. That pays over one million dollars. So, you would be rich, even if the company you worked for didn't pay you much.

You would also have the opportunity to make a lot of money by going on talk shows, giving lectures, writing books, and maybe even doing tv commercials.

For a while, "the guy who cured cancer" would be the most famous person in the world.

Answer 5

It will be shelved forever, like the herbal tea that helped thousands of cancer patients but was never allowed to be called a cure. It is not the government, it is certain people in the government that benefit from drugs used for cancer. Just imagine the billions of dollars these drug companies will lose if there is a cure. By the way, there is an alternative cancer treatment with great results called essies tea, though to call it a cure would not just be unlawful, but plain untrue, cause some cancers are very aggressive and the cancer has already spread through the patients body, then it might be to late for even essies tea to help.

Answer 6

WOW that is a very hard question too answer well if i was famuse people would know that i had the cure and would ask me for the answer in just about every country maybe it would go to Africa first but then come to US as for the part about us being mored concered about Africa to a certain extent yes and to a certain extent no. The same wit iraq........ I could probably send hours answering this question and never get the right answer

Answer 7

I think the government doesn't care at all about Africa. and why would they send the cure for cancer to Africa, their biggest problem is AIDS, The only reason they would send it to Africa is to test it's effects on the people there because it would be against the law to test it on ppl here. Therefore, it shows that they don't care about the ppl in Africa at all, but would be using them to ensure a cure for the people here, risking their lives to see if the cure is safe.

Answer 8

Who gives a **** about money. If you cured cancer you would be known throughout the world. But they already have ways to cure cancer buzz. Are you living in the past. No not all forms but some. Maybe you should have used AIDS as an example. But yeah regardless I would not care if I made a profit. Your name would be known forever. A Legacy.

Answer 9

That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.

When you work for a pharmaceutical research company, you sign a paper with them stating any clinical discoveries are the property of that pharmaceutical. You'd get recognition and bonuses with the company, but you wouldn't make MILLIONS like the pharmaceutical. But you can't do research on your own. You have to have these companies support you. Research is VERY expensive. No, the government wouldn't "take it" and send it to Africa. LOLOLOLOL

Answer 10

What would be the problem if cancer were cured in Africa and the rest of the world as well?

In any case, scientific progress can not be stopped.

Answer 11

Try Vitamin C therapy. A few years ago a cancer researcher came out with a paper saying that the best cancer and infection fighter as yet found was Interferon, but, at the time, it cost $15,000 a gram. The good part was that Interferon was a product of the natural breakdown of Vitamin C in your system. Shortly after that paper came out the FDA tried to make Vit C by prescription only. Guess why? The FDA says that the RDA for Vit C is 64 mg a day, just enough to prevent scurvy. Linus Pauling, who got a Nobel Prize for his work with Vit C and a second Nobel Prize for organic chemistry, said 1000 mg a day as a minimum and 2000 mg a day if you are sick. On a personal note, I was sick twice a year, for 2 weeks at a time, for 20 years, and was flat on my back for at least a week each time. To this day the doctors have no idea what the problem was. After I gave up on the doctors I tried Vit C. I took enough to keep from being sick and just below too much to get diarrhea. It followed a bell curve over 2 weeks with a peak at 40,000 mg a day – about 300,000 over the 2 weeks. I was not sick for those 2 weeks and after a couple of years of that I have not been sick since. I did not dissolve my kidneys, as some doctors said would happen. I did not get any calcium build up or stones and did not dissolve my cones or solidify my joints. Try it, but drink a lot of water – Vit C is a natural diuretic.