is there a cure for cancer?? sounds like a redundant and stupid question but I just read in the Los Angeles?

Question

Times - "Dr Isadore Rosenfeld" said "Many cancers are curable" !! So which cancers are curable? and how? Or is "Dr Rosenfeld" a quack?

how can cancer be destroyed and not curable?

Answer 1

Yes and No. There is a "cure" provided that the methods are AMA or FDA approved which are surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. AND AAANNNNNDDDD the cancer remission meets the AMA/FDA definition of "cure" which is that the cancer being treated by surgery, chemotherapy, radiation GOES INTO REMISSION for more than 5 years. If the cancer returns in less than 5 years then the cancer is not "cured". BUT if the cancer goes into remission for 6 years and returns to kill the patient, it is still counted as "cured". So under this definition you can see that some "cures" are not really cures. And please note that the AMA/FDA approved cures are based on the methods (surgery, chemotherapy, radiation) and not on the cause of the cancer or how the methods address the cause. You may begin to get the quacking idea. They don't really care about the cause of the cancer as long as you use their approved methods. Also note that many doctors and nurses would decline chemotherapy and radiation if they had cancer themselves.

Answer 2

You have misinterpreted what is being said . . there is no overall 'cure' for all cancers . . there is no one pill you take that will make the disease disappear. But, no one has ever said that cancer is not treatable . . and that treatment can lead to remission which in the long run can be called a 'cure'. What confuses the public the most is the fact that cancer is a progressive disease that starts out very small . . and than starts progressing until it is bigger and bigger. In this early stage cancer is often 'curable' . . as the cancer can be removed. Cancers most life threatening form is in stage IV. Stage IV refers to metastatic disease. Metastatic disease means that the original tumor has begun to shed microscopic malignant cells into the blood stream or lymphatic system. It is stage IV disease and high grade tumors that are deadly . . and it is extremely difficult to stop the spread of the disease. Medical science has progressed far enough to stop the spread of the disease for some cancers for quite a long time . . but it cannot 'cure' the cancer. It cannot make it go away for good . . because all it takes is one stray malignant cell to start the cancer all over again.

So, Rosenfeld is not a quack . . he is right in a way . . that some cancers if found early enough can be treated and that treatment will lead to a cure. The problem is that people hear the word . . cure . . and think that means all cancer and havn't a clue about metastatic cancer . . or that some cancers are more deadly than others. There are some forms of skin cancer that are curable just by removing the lesions. There are stage 1, low grade tumors that once removed . . the patient is 'cured' . . so, yes, in these cases 'cancer' becomes curable.

In answer to your question . .the cancers that are 'curable' include almost all types of cancer staged as 1 or 2 . . the treatment 'cures' the cancer. Some advanced cancers can be treated surgically and with radiation and chemotherapy and depending on the tumor location, the grade of cancer, and response to treatment . . there can be treatment that effects 'cure'.

There are survivors of every type of cancer . . . keep that in mind when people try to say that medical treatment 'isn't working' or that 'drug companies' hide the 'cure' . . none of that is true. Cancer is a complicated disease and there are many survivors who can be considered 'cured' . . it is the remaining cancer patients, most who have metastatic disease . . it is metastasis that kills and is the most difficult to find successfull treatment for. However, recent new research has found for sarcoma . . a certain protein within the tumor. It is hoped this discovery will lead to more effective treatment options;

NCI Researchers Identify Novel Mechanism for Spread of Sarcoma Tumors
http://snipurl.com/1u83a

Answer 3

It depends on what he's saying. Cancer is merely a cell or groups of cells that mutated and doesn't have the command code to stop growing and die. This actually occurs quite frequently. It's our immune system that keeps it in check by destroying these mutated cells every day. The cancerous ones that stick around has either found a way to circumvent the immune system or the immune system isn't doing it's job. This is where medicine is trying to figure out, how to disarm the cancer or find a way for the immune system to recognize that it's cancer and kill it off.

Most books and studies I've read usually discuss about nutrition or life style changes to stimulate the immune system to get it to do it's job. Does it always work? No. Does it work at all? Yes, and at various effectiveness. Would I rely on it solely for aggressive malignant cancer treatment? No. Benign? Perhaps, if it works, if not, resort to normal protocol. Would I recommend to my patients in addition to their current treatment plan? Yes. Nutrition and life style changes are not life threatening, and it may help.

Answer 4

Many cancers are indeed curable IF DETECTED EARLY. The exact procedure of curing a cancer is highly patient-specific and may include surgery, radiation, and/or chemotherapy. For many patients, changes in diet and/or lifestyle may be necessary to prevent the recurrence of cancer.

Answer 5

Sounds like a quack to me, and unfortunately he's not the only idiot out there offering miracle cures for cancer.
No cancer is curable, but there are many cancers that can easily be treated and destroyed, especially if they're caught early.

Answer 6

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Difficult to know what to say about what Dr Rosenfeld says without seeing the article. As far as I know he’s a medical doctor and an acupuncture and Chinese medicine enthusiast. I may be wrong.

http://www.csicop.org/si/9907/news.html#acupuncture
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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

Some 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 that are found very early - 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.

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.

There's no conspiracy to hide or prevent a cancer cure in order to maximise profits either The conspiracy theory is an urban myth, a sort of game played by those who have not had cancer or close experience of it. Think about it, if there were such a conspiracy:

*whoever discovered the cure would be keeping quiet, even though it would bring them fame and fortune. Any drug company discovering a cure would make more money than they can have dreamed of making up till now.

*every medical professional in the whole world would have agreed to keep the cure secret. Every single one. One blabbermouth, one disgruntled researcher or sacked nurse and the whole conspiracy’s blown.

*the thousands of people who would have to have been cured by it in order to prove it worked would be keeping quiet about it too. Newspapers and other media wouldn't have got a sniff of it.

*doctors, scientist, researchers etc would be watching their relatives die and dying themselves (they and their families develop cancer at the same rate as the rest of the population) even though they knew of a cure

http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/conspiracy.html

http://health.discovery.com/centers/cancer/top10myths/myth9.html

There is much research going on in all types of cancer to try and find a cures- dedicated hard work by those same people who some suggest are conspiring to hide a cure.

Answer 7

Bone marrow and stem cell transplants are possible cures for leukemias and lymphomas.


Its hard to say anything is an absolute cure for any kind of cancer in any group of ppl bc cancer cells can lie dormant for years upon years before becomming active again.

So words like long term survival or long term remission are used intstead.

Answer 8

if detected in its early stage its curable...they said prevention is better than cure....so most probably cancer in its early stage can still have the chance of survival..at present am on my 3rd cycle of chemotheraphy for my stage 3C adenocarcinoma endemetroid...30 sessions of radiation theraphy will follow soon.....hope its true but only GOD knows..
NIKKA

Answer 9

WELL YES IN FACT SOME ARE CURED BUT DEPENDS ON THE PERSON AND THE RESISTANCE THE CHEMOTHERAPY AND RADIATION BUT ONLY A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE GET CURES...

Answer 10

there is no sure-fire cure for any cancer... it all depends on how early you catch it, and your will to beat it... im a true believer in "mind over matter"...

o yah, and stop believing everything you read... most of it's crap anyways...