Question: How long do you think we'll have to wait for a cure for cancer?

Timothy Budden answered on 17 Jun 2022:

This is a great question and a difficult one to answer. I think we will be waiting quite some time for a cure. But we are always learning new things about cancer and treatments are always getting better. The tricky thing with cancer is that everyone’s is different, a treatment that works for some people will not work for others. And depending on the type of cancer (lung, skin, brain etc) some are much more curable than others.

We will never get rid of cancer entirely, I think the future of cancer will be one where it will be much more treatable that we will still get cancer but a lot less people will die from it. One day there may even be vaccines against some cancers to stop them developing in the first place, this is a big area of research at the moment.