can you give me the cure for cancer?

Answer 1

The short answer to this is, yes. Many people are cured of their cancers - but unfortunately some are not.

There are three important factors which affect the chance of having a cure: the type of cancer, how 'advanced' that cancer is when it is discovered, and how well the cancer responds to treatment.

Cancer is not a single disease. There are hundreds of different types of cancer and each of these different types has different chances of cure. So, for example, cures are very common in conditions like breast cancer, bowel cancer, testicular cancer, skin cancer and Hodgkin lymphoma, but they are much less common in cancers of the lung, pancreas and stomach.

For any one type of cancer, a tumour that is diagnosed when it is small and has not spread at all will always have a better chance of a cure than one that is only discovered when it is more advanced, and has grown to a large size and sent seedlings, called secondary cancers, to other parts of the body. So, for example, a bowel cancer that has not spread beyond the lining of the wall of the bowel is usually completely cured by an operation whereas a bowel cancer that is only found when it has already sent seedlings to the liver is only rarely curable. On the other hand, with cancers that are very sensitive to treatment, such as Hodgkin lymphoma or testicular cancer, most people can still be cured even when the cancer has developed widespread secondaries.

It is important to mention that modern cancer treatments are also improving cure rates. Many kinds of cancer that were almost always incurable fifty years ago are now routinely cured by modern day therapies.-

Answer 2

Of course not. You will probably get some answers from people claiming they know a cure, but the facts are these:

Cancer is hundreds of diseases, not just one. The difficulty is that different cancers are caused by different things, so no one strategy can prevent them, and different cancers respond to different treatments so no one treatment can cure them all

Quite a few cancers can be cured these days though. Cancer Research UK says that 7 out of 10 children are cured of cancer. Testicular cancer, Hodgkin's disease, and many cases of leukaemia can all be cured in adults with chemotherapy, most skin cancers are cured with surgery, and many cases of thyroid cancer and cancer of the larynx are cured with radiotherapy.

Many other types of cancer are also cured if they are found early enough - 75% of breast cancers found at stage one for example. There is still a long way to go, especially with some of the commonest types of cancer such as lung, breast, bowel and prostate cancer.

There is much research going on in all types of cancer to try and find a cure. Biological therapies such as cancer vaccines, monoclonal antibodies and gene therapies are all active areas of research. There is also research into how cancers grow their own blood supplies. Researchers are beginning to test 'anti-angiogenic' drugs that may be able to stop that happening and so stop cancers from growing. Of course you still have to find them early enough for this to be a cure. But there is hope that this treatment may also stop cancer secondaries from developing.

Many people – invariably those who have not had cancer or been close to it - have pet theories about what causes and prevents it, and how to treat it. Existing treatments - chemotherapy and radiotherapy - are not perfect, far from it, but we know, because they have been clinically tested and proven, that they save some lives and extend many others.

Answer 3

They are finding more and more cures every day. My daughter is cancer free from breast cancer for 1 1/2 years now. Eating good well balanced diets, exercising and making sure she gets the checks ups she needs to get.

Answer 4

Honey if any of us had the cure for cancer don't you think we'd be off selling it to the big drug companies instead of sitting here wasting our lives on yahoo!?

Answer 5

No One has a100 % cure but.. i do know that green tea has been medically proven to shrink the size of tumors,and essiac tea has cured my aunt and friend in -law. she was allergic to chemo and had been diagnosed with cancer throughout her body . she is free of it now. she used both the essiac and the green tea. the essiac tea has a main ingredient of burdock root, plus some other herbs. she said it was foul tasting but it did save her life.

Answer 6

Chemotherapy, radiation, and/or surgery can get rid of some types of cancer.

Answer 7

Forget that it is an act of life for some people. If it is you...Live life like normal and enjoy what is left.

If it someone else, try to spend time with them and live like normal as well.

Don't have special treatment, don't make others feel bad for you.

Answer 8

uh, there is no cure.

Answer 9

death
(silly question, silly answer)