Is There Finally Going To Be A Cure For Cancer In The Near Future?

Question

Id like to know because its sad just looking at the people with cancer. Id never want this to happen to even my worst enimies.

Wow. I Never thought about the money

Answer 1

People who are not familiar with cancer often do not realize how much progress has been made . . even in the past few months there are more treatment options than ever before. More people are surviving their cancers . . look at Lance Armstrong. He survived a stage IV testicular cancer that had spread to his brain. And, so much progress has been made in pediatric oncology that now at least 80 percent of childhood cancer is treated successfully.

As for a cure . . yes . . there will someday be a cure . . once they unlock the secrets to stopping the cancer cell from metastasizing.

What many here do not seem to know is that there are over 200 different types of cancer (not to mention rare subtypes). Making it a very complicated disease. Some cancers are extremely slow growing and some are very fast. Some cancers strike only children, some cancers strike only older adults, some cancers strike only males, some cancers strike only females, some cancers are genetic, some cancers are caused by the environment, some cancers are caused by hormonal imbalance, and the majority of cancers the cause is unknown.

All 200 different types of cancer can present to a patient in four different stages and grades of tumor. Some patients are young and healthy and able to withstand their cancer for many years. Some patients are old and unhealthy and do not last very long. In almost all cases cancer is treatable. In other words the treatment is capable of curing individual patients based on stage, grade, cancer location, type, age, and overall health.

Cure for individuals is possible. But so far, not all treatment will lead to a cure for all people. There are too many variables. Research is getting close, but we are not there yet.

Incidentally, one of the top ten cancer myths is the idea that the medical community is withholding the cure for cancer because of money!! It's number nine on the list. :-D

"Cancer Myth 9: The Cancer Cure
http://health.discovery.com/centers/cancer/top10myths/myth9.html

Cancer Myth 9: There is currently a cure for cancer, but the medical industry won't tell the public about it because they make too much money treating cancer patients.

Reality: One overarching fact that clearly disputes this conspiracy theory is that doctors and laboratory scientists along with their families die of cancer at the same rate as everyone else in the United States. There is one exception, though. Health-care professionals and biomedical researchers are less likely to develop and/or die of lung, larynx, esophageal and other tobacco-related cancers because they are more aware of the dangers of tobacco and are less likely to smoke than the rest of the population.

And why would anyone hide a cure for cancer? Medical breakthroughs of all kinds are quickly announced and applied — as the world has seen with antibiotics and vaccines, such as the polio vaccine.

Also, finding one all-encompassing cure for cancer is unlikely. Cancer comes in many different forms, and for several of them, there are already cures available for the majority of patients.

Only a few decades ago, less than one in 10 children with leukemia survived 10 years after diagnosis. With modern chemotherapy, the cure rate for these children is almost 80 percent. Examples of similar progress include Hodgkin's lymphoma, bone and kidney cancers in children, and testicular cancer.

Fewer than half of all people with cancer in the United States actually die of the disease — and many who are not "cured" of cancer still go on living for years with relatively few changes in their lives, thanks to years of research, which has produced many advances in the fight against many of the different types of the disease. But to suggest that there currently exists an all-encompassing cure for cancer that doctors are aware of is quite inaccurate."

Answer 2

Unfortunately, the money's not in the cure, the money's in the medicine. I do believe that there are organizations working to find a cure, but there are probably more corporations looking for medicine that will let people live with cancer. Even the ACS (American Cancer Society) has been sitting on a stockpile of money and spends very little on research for finding a cure according to "Censored 2000: the years top 25 censored stories." What was the last disease cured? Polio?

Answer 3

Wow, what a question. You know what I think, and you might be surprised, but I think THERE IS A CURE FOR CANCER. At least SOME of the cancers. Consider this; do you know how much it costs to actually diagnose and treat some of these cancers? Try to imagine how many of us have or will have cancer. That's a lot of money. If there is a cure for this horrible illness, how will the medical industry make any money?
But then again, there may not actually be a cure for cancer. And you are right, we are making progress.

Answer 4

Cancer, sadly is a business. If they find a cure then a lot of people will be out of a job. They don't really want to find a cure. Many organizations gladly take your money, and promise they are doing research to find a cure. Problem is, their driving around in limos and making top dollar, so you know that money is not going for research! Doctors, nurses, whole institutions, (hospitals and clinics) and especially the so called cancer charities would all be on the street looking for a job.
Plain and simple, its a business, as is most organizations promising cures for diseases, as is the Pharmaceutical Companies, they don't truly believe in helping out mankind, its the almighty dollar! And they all found suckers who have ailing and terminal family members and friends, playing into thier pain and frustration, to suck thier money from.

Answer 5

Extremely unlikely. As I mentioned in an earlier post, cancer is not one disease but, a description for hundreds perhaps thousands of diseases with common symptoms. Each disease is defined by a distinct set of genetic mutations and its location (cells affected).

By identifying and countering the effects of some genetic mutations, some cancers such as Ph+ CML can be held in indefinite remission by targeted therapy drugs like Gleevec, Sprycel and, Tasigna.

However, identifying the genetic mutations and their associated proteins and inhibitors for those proteins that are not toxic to humans is an extremely difficult task. In other words, we have a methodology for designing drugs that can cause indefinite remissions but, each cancer case is different and it is very difficult. For a drug like, Gleevec, it took almost 10 years for idea to FDA approval adn that was for an "easy" case. In the past, drugs were developed by trial and error.

http://www.newcmldrug.com/history.htm...

So, in conclusion, there is nearly zero chance of a cure for all cancers in the next few years. Perhaps, treatments that can achieve indefinite remission for certain kinds of cancer can be developed in the next 20 years or so but, I doubt a one treatment for all cancers because cancer is a symptom not a one disease.

Answer 6

My grandpa cured his cancer along time ago, by eating healthy and excerise. The amish people have no types of cancer or other types of illness that people get from eating all the crap that has chemicals in it. Did you know that the FDA is able to lie to us if they have too with a product. Look at Aspertame ( cause's cancer in lab rats ). It also turns into methanol, FDA says only unsafe when it gets warm. You drink it, go's to yur tummy and gets really hot, put in coffee- that is really hot too.

Answer 7

sadly not yet but alot of things are being done to treat it furthermore.... Only prayer and faith can really heal a person..
I've seen it happen, even though i'm not a big religious person. It's happened where some people were actually near their deaths and out of nowhere, they were cured.

Answer 8

I doubt it too much money being made trying to cure it.

Answer 9

i doubt it woukld happen so soon
but ill be happy to tell you that science is making amazing breakthroughs one after another

Answer 10

i haven't heard of any guaranteed cures