• Question: do you think anyone will ever fined a cure for canser

    Asked by pricee to MarkF, Mark, Michael, Panos, Sarah on 18 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Sarah Burl answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      There are already cures for cancer, not all types of cancer kill you if you catch it early!

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      Mark Fogg answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      There will never be a single cure for cancer as they pretty much all behave differently in the body. There are cures for some though, such as skin cancer, thyroid cancer and some types of leukemia, unfortunately they don’t all work 100% of the time.

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      Mark Travis answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      Cancer is a very complex disease, and lots of different cancers are different so finding a cure that will deal with all cancer will be very difficult. But for specific types of cancer, yes, definitely we are close (and in some cases there are already very good drugs out there).

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      Panos Soultanas answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      This is the million dollar question. It is a difficult task. Cancer is a name for a range of different diseases. There are many different types of cancers with different characteristics and causes. I guess it will not be possible to find a universal single cure but great progress has already been made in curing a number of different cancers already. Diagnosing it early is the key for sure in most cases.

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      Michael Loughlin answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      I beleive so yes…as we undertsand more about human genetics and how our body interatcs with the environment we will learn more amore about controlling it

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