why is there no cure for cancer with all of the medical technology we have ?

Answer 1

Because it is very complicated. It is our own cells that have mutated. It's hard to treat it without damaging ourselves. That is why people on chemo get so sick. The combination of meds needed to kill the abnormal cells also kills good cells.

Answer 2

You question is like why haven't we travelled to the planet Jupiter or fly 10 times the speed of sound or....

Frankly, we just don't have the technology yet. To cure cancer and practically anything, we need a way to fix the human genome in vivo (not in cell cultures or animal models).

We don't have cures much less treatments for countless diseases. This does not even include the group of diseases cancer is lumped into.

Most of these diseases where there is no cure are caused by genetic mutations. Right now, I cannot think of one genetic disease that we have a cure. We have treatments but, no cure.

Other diseases with no cure include: common cold, influenza, diabetes, epilesy, many parasitic diseases, etc.

Answer 3

Don't believe it for a minute! Cancer is being cured all the time, but that information is being suppressed.

Many of the above answers are brainwashed responses to the AMA's propaganda campaign for ineffective chemo, radiation and surgery.

There are perfectly good natural cures used everywhere in the world except the U.S. to CURE cancer. There is a huge news blackout to keep this information from the public.

Research these--

"The Cure for All Cancers", ISBN 0963632825
"The Cure for All Advanced Cancers", ISBN 1890035165
"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

and look at this--

http://www.altcancer.com/vidgal.htm#hoxs...

AMA AND FDA--
The American Medical Association (AMA) and the pharmaceutical companies control medical law and the FDA in this country with heavy lobbying and a revolving door policy. WHY would they want to do this? It's about the money. In 2006, medicine (doctors, hospitals, researchers and pharmaceutical firms) received 2.1 TRILLION dollars--15% of the total earnings (GNP 13.7 trillion) in the U.S. This is astounding! It means MILLIONS of people worked the whole year just to pay the nation's medical expenses!! That's totally astounding, and just too big to care about individuals.

Best of luck.

Answer 4

Because cancer is the result of one of the cells in the body loosing its growth controls. It starts to divide more rapidly and it in some ways looses the characteristics that it normally had because all of its energy is targeted towards dividing. The reason cancer is hard to cure is you have to kill every single cancer cell for the cancer to be gone. If only some of the cells die the cancer will continue to divide and grow. In addition even if it looks like you have removed all of the cancer it is possible that some cells have entered the blood stream or lymphatic system and can travel to other areas of the body.

Answer 5

We are developing cures for specific cancers slowly but surely. The main obstacle we have is that there is so many different types of cancer and they all have to be treated differently due to responding to treatments differently. For example, the use of radiation type treatments or chemotherapy does not successfully eradicate all cancers that might exist in person's body.

Answer 6

Well I think it's because like many diseases and illnesses, cancer can mutate and change it's DNA, so if we invent a medicine it can mutate and become immune.
I'm not exactly sure, but that's what I believe is going on.
It's a complex thing, so far we can only get rid of it by almost killing the host, because like a parasite it feeds off the nutrients we take in, this killing is also known as Chemo or Radiation therapy.

Answer 7

Just because we have technology doesn't mean we have answers. And everyday their finding more and more possibilities and answers that could one day lead to a cure, but for now were stuck with Chemo and Radiation and hope it helps.

Answer 8

My biology teacher said that there was no cure for cancer. But doctors just give pills and stuff for treatment to treat the symptoms.

Answer 9

You are wise to ask. I see so many persons spending their final months in misery of expensive treatments under the false hope that they will be cured. The other answers so far pretty much express my answer but I was struck by your question so had to comment.