• Question: do you think there will ever be a cure for cancer?

    Asked by rawwrr1995 to Pete, Rebecca, SallyB, Sally, Sian on 20 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Rebecca Randell

      Rebecca Randell answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      In time i think there will be. There is a lot of research going on at the moment trying to find a cure. Its very expensive to do all the research that is why there is a lot of cancer research charities

    • Photo: Sally Barber

      Sally Barber answered on 19 Jun 2010:

      Some people are cured of cancer at the moment, it’s just that the cures don’t work for everyone and not every type of cancer is curable. I think that scientists will go on finding new cures and eventually all cancer will be curable. The best thing is to prevent diseases like cancer from happening at all. You can help to prevent some types of cancer by leading a healthy lifestyle. Not smoking can reduce your risk of lung cancer and exercising regularly can reduce the risk of breast and other types of cancer. Eating plenty of fruit and veg and also help to prevent some types of cancer.

    • Photo: Sian Lawson

      Sian Lawson answered on 20 Jun 2010:

      It’s a really long way off. Cancer is so diverse that it’s unrealistic to think that a cure is close by, but detection & treatments continue to improve.

    • Photo: Sally Fenton

      Sally Fenton answered on 20 Jun 2010:

      I hope so. Although we don’t have a cure at the minute people are making new discoveries all the time which are building towards it. Recently there has been something invented which helps those people who have terminal cancer to live for years longer than expected. It is something which applies a small electrical current (which you can’t feel)..to the site of the cancer continuously and kills the cells! So they are getting there!

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