is it possible that we will find a cure for cancer?

Question

it seem's like we NEVER will. or have we already and the person who found the cure has not told a soul.

Answer 1

I think we will definitely find a cure and I think it will be soon :)

Answer 2

First of all, cancer is not a single disease - it is many diseases. All cancers are caused by genetic problems in cells.

That said, there already are some cures for some cancers, but the way human body cells are constructed, if you live long enough, eventually you will get some form of cancer. It bothers me that people think cancer is a single disease, and it is probably thousands - there may be 50 different kinds of prostate cancer alone.

Answer 3

HIV and melanoma aren't the identical factor. Like, they do not use the polio virus to cure leprosy... @Jasmine, that rather wise chick failed to become aware of a advantage therapy. She found out a novel approach to get the medications immediately into the cancer cells by heating the treatment crammed polymer beads to melting and hence releasing the medicines. Current gene remedies are experimental, and many are nonetheless tested simplest on animals. There are some medical trials involving an extraordinarily small number of human subjects

Answer 4

HIV and maximum cancers are actually not an identical undertaking. Like, they do no longer use the polio virus to therapy leprosy... @Jasmine, that rather clever chick did no longer come across a potential therapy. She discovered a special thank you to get the medicine rapidly into the main cancers cells by way of heating the medicine stuffed polymer beads to melting and subsequently liberating the medicine. cutting-edge gene remedies are experimental, and countless are nevertheless examined only on animals. There are some medical trials regarding an extremely small form of human matters

Answer 5

I'm a larynx cancer survivor cancer free only because they cut out my voice box Guess you could call that a cure I'm still alive after 7 years

Answer 6

there are several cancers that are entirely curable, and many survivors of cancer walking around alive today. Finding an overall cure, isn't going to happen, there are too many different ones to be able to lump them all together.

Answer 7

I am far more encouraged that a possible cure or at least a treatment has just been found for an aggressive sarcoma called Ewing's Sarcoma. It is still in the early research stage but it is an approach that may make sense for a number of different cancers . . if the genes can be identified and be reveresed. What this means is that if they can come up with a way to reverse the gene and make it normal again . . there may be a new treatment or possible 'cure' for some types of cancers including Ewing's sarcoma.

http://www.news-medical.net/?id=25159

Cells that cause Ewing's sarcoma identified
Medical Research News
Published: Wednesday, 16-May-2007

Inserm researchers at the Institut Curie have identified the cells that cause Ewing's sarcoma.
They are cells of the mesenchyme, the connective tissue that supports other tissues. The Institut Curie is the reference center in France for Ewing's sarcoma, a bone tumor of children, adolescents, and young adults. The researchers have also succeeded "to make" the tumor cells to become virtually normal mesenchymal cells again. These results, published in Cancer Cell on 7 May 2007, open up new therapeutic possibilities for blocking the development of Ewing's sarcoma in young patients.

Ewing's sarcoma is the second most frequent malignant bone tumor in France, with 50 to 100 new cases a year. It occurs in children, teenagers, and young adults (up to 30 years of age), at a frequency that peaks around puberty, between 10 and 20 years of age. This bone tumor essentially grows in the pelvis, ribs, femur, fibula, and tibia. It is highly invasive and metastases are common, especially in the lungs and skeleton.

Treatment of Ewing's sarcoma, has progressed greatly in the last thirty years. Nowadays, the therapeutic strategy used in most cases combines chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery. The Institut Curie is the reference center for Ewing's sarcoma in France, and is internationally renowned both for clinical management of patients and research into this disease.

Cancers rarely have a simple molecular signature-a specific mutation that causes tumor growth. In the case of Ewing's sarcoma, a molecular signature was identified and characterized in 1992 by Olivier Delattre's Inserm team at the Institut Curie. It is an accidental change of genetic material between two chromosomes, which results in the formation of a mutant gene, which codes for an abnormal protein called EWS/FLI-1. This discovery led on to the development of a diagnostic test for Ewing's sarcoma in 1994. Yet until now, the nature of the cell in which this mutation occurs was unknown.

The group of Olivier Delattre, the Director of Inserm Unit 830 "Genetics and Biology of Cancer" at the Institut Curie, and the team of Pierre Charbord, the Director of Inserm Laboratory ERI5 "Microenvironment of Hematopoiesis and Stem Cells" in Tours, have now discovered that Ewing's sarcoma are caused by cells of the mesenchyme, a connective tissue that supports other tissues. They have shown that the profile of the transcriptome of Ewing's sarcoma ressemble that of mesenchymal cells, particularly mesenchymal stem cells, when EWS/FLI-1 is inhibited.

By inhibiting the abnormal protein EWS/FLI-1 that causes Ewing's sarcoma, the researchers also "forced" the tumor cells to return to their original status of mesenchymal stem cells, which can then differentiate normally into bone or fat cells. This approach opens up new therapeutic prospects, since by forcing the cells to resume their original function it may be possible in the future to make them less aggressive and prevent their proliferation. As long as the tumor cells are still able to fulfill their function, they generally proliferate slowly, and the prognosis is good; once they lose this capacity, however, the tumor cells become highly aggressive.

This discovery could allow Delattre, Charbord and colleagues to produce an animal model of Ewing's sarcoma, an essential stage in the development of new treatments.

These results, published in the May 7 issue of Cancer Cell, show once more that the close collaboration at the Institut Curie between physicians and researchers is vital to advances in treatments of Ewing's sarcoma.

http://www.curie.fr

Answer 8

We will find a cure for cancer very soon, which will be acceptable.
Lets not give up hope as there is a cure for every disease.
THEY HAVE DISCOVERED CURE FOR CANCER , AS THEY ARE NOT WILLING TO TELL IT, AS THEY HAVE ALREADY INVESTED BILLIONS OF $$ IN THIS INDUSTRY.

Answer 9

I think we have a cure for cancer and the money hungry doctors out there won't give it up.

Answer 10

Anything is possible.

The thing about the pharmaceutical companies is that the research has to make them a profit.

So eventually we will but not until they figure out a new way to make a profit from it.