• Question: Do you believe there will be a cure to cancer in the next 100 years?

    Asked by shona14 to Amy, Grant, Martin, Shawn, Usman on 13 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Martin Archer

      Martin Archer answered on 13 Mar 2013:

      I have no idea, I hope so. Look at the last 100 years and you’ll see the amazing progress we’ve made in loads of areas so it conceivable. But quite how they might do this I don’t know. I always liked the idea of reprogramming viruses to wipe out cancer cells, though I don’t know whether that has panned out in terms of the latest research.

    • Photo: Amy Tyndall

      Amy Tyndall answered on 19 Mar 2013:

      Cancer is a very complicated disease, in that there is not just one cause for it – it’s basically a mutation in the body’s cells at a genetic level that make them do things they shouldn’t. And things can mutate in hundreds of different ways, so it would be hard to have one single injection, for example, that could cure all types of cancer.

      I like to think that there are some forms that we will be able to stop from appearing, or get rid of if you do end up suffering, but we’re a while off that yet 🙁

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