How close are we to finding a cure for cancer?

Question

How close are we to finding a cure for cancer?

Answer 1

Not close enough.

My close friend lost her battle with breast cancer this past Sunday. Her funeral was today.

Answer 2

i wish :'(

Answer 3

im going to be honest. they have already found very successful treatment in the lab for lots of cancers.  the problem is getting human volunteers and clinical trails set up.  i did some research in college where they had found a successful treatment using dendritic cells for breast cancer. there were only 17 people in the trial and over half were cured of their cancer.  but it stops there. 17 people is not enough and funding for more research is not always available.  not alot of people realize this.  

Answer 4

We have cures for some cancers.  Look at Lance Armstrong's web site.

Cancer is a general term for 200 plus different diseases.

Over half of people diagnosed with cancers are being cured now.

How close are we to finding cures for every one of these diseases?

No one can say. The different cures will be learned in steps just as they have been over the past half century.

The best way to manage "cancer" is to prevent the ones that are clearly associated with our lifestyles.  If we all stopped smoking, we could eliminate most (~90%) of lung cancers which cause more death than any other cancer type.

Asking about a "cure for cancer" is like asking when there will be a cure for "Infection".  There are many many types of infections that can cause disease and death.

Answer 5

The problem with finding a cure is that cancer is not a single disease, it's an umbrella term for over 200 different diseases. The difficulty with finding a cure is that different cancers are caused by different things, so no one strategy can prevent them They all respond to different treatments so no one treatment can cure them, so there isn't a magic bullet that cures all cancers and there never will be. Nobody will ever 'discover' a miraculous single substance or procedure that will cure all cancers.

And quite a few cancers can already be cured: seven out of ten 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.

There's no guaranteed cure for any cancer, but progress is being made and there is dedicated - and underfunded - work going on to find to find more effective treatments. Rather than a Eureka! moment, there will be steady advances in reversing some types of cancer, controlling others and improving medications.

Anyone who claims there is already a 'cure' for all cancers is deluded or after your money