• Question: Will we ever cure cancer?

    • Keywords:
      • Search for related information:
      Asked by Maryam to Richard, Lauren, katy, Anais on 9 Mar 2016. This question was also asked by Leocos.
      • Photo: Richard Friend

        Richard Friend answered on 9 Mar 2016:

        I think so, yes. We’ve come a long way with cancer and we’ve already got a lot of treatments available to us. It’s the sort of thing that takes a long time to cure because there’s so many different sorts of cancer and they all act in different ways. But they’ve already got a vaccine for one sort of cancer, so we’re making progress! How amazing is that? Hopefully in the future it will be the same as getting an infection or something, so you see a doctor, they fix you up, you get better and you don’t even worry about it. That’s what I’d like to see.

      • Photo: Lauren Laing

        Lauren Laing answered on 10 Mar 2016:

        I agree with Richard, I think we will one day. But like he says, there are lots of different types, so we need to come up with more then one treatment or cure! As our knowledge of genetics and how cancers develop improve, we will be able to detect cancers sooner, and use more effective treatments.

    Comments