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1. ali

   In my opinion, the reason why we have not found a cure for cancer is that the way we do research on cancer has been flawed. We already know that cancer is caused by mutations acquired through carcinogens over a period of time and these mutations affect the expression or modify the proteins that are responsible in stopping or preventing uncontrolled cell-growth. However, there are many reasons/causes as to why there is such a phenomena, ie different genes acquire the mutations in different cancer patients, therefore each cancer patient is unique as well as similar. To give you a good example, think of each cancer patient as an aviation disaster, ie a plane crash. There can be many reasons why a plane crash. Lack of fuel, structural damage, human error, etc but they all lead to the same conclusion, ie a horrible crash with people dying. Now, how come the aviation industry can learn so much from every crash and design better planes and better safety measures to prevent future accidents from the same cause while in cancer, there is nothing of that sort? That is because, the airlines always conduct a through investigation to EVERY plane crash but do we do that for EVERY cancer patient? We don’t even do a DNA analysis of each cancer patient to determine what are the genes that has mutations that is causing the cancer but feed patient chemotherapeutic drugs “hoping” that it will kill off the cancer cells. I believe if more directed effort (not just puting more money) is made in cancer research, ie treat every incidence of cancer like an air-crash disaster, we will be able to cure cancer within 5-10 years.

   Posted on 23-Nov-09 at 7:57 pm | Permalink
2. Listento…

   It is because with a cure there will be a lot of people without jobs anymore. It’s political and money motivated. There have been a few successful cancer therapies that have been banned, scientists have been jailed for trying to get cures to the public. They have been made to look like mad scientists with now idea what they are talking about. Data from studies on new medications have been altered. Though most of it is difficult to prove. I do know of it happening to people I have known. After seeing those things, it completely changed my perspective on the industry as a whole,and put a lot of questions in my mind as to why there are still no cures for many diseases. Also, why third world countries and just other countries in some instances have better success rates with managing or curing certain diseases. There are many holes in many stories and I also believe a lot of questions deserving of answers that will most likely never be given. That has been my experience, and my thoughts.

   Posted on 23-Nov-09 at 7:57 pm | Permalink
3. cheyenne

   check out this research group..they are trying to find some cures……http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/

   Posted on 23-Nov-09 at 7:57 pm | Permalink
4. ihateptc

   billions doesnt come close, probably more like quadrillions

   Posted on 23-Nov-09 at 7:57 pm | Permalink
5. search engine optimization consultant

   I don’t know when research began, or how much has been spent – not enough, obviously.
   There isn’t a magic bullet that cures all cancers and there never will be The problem with finding a cure is that cancer is hundreds of diseases, not just one. Different cancers are caused by different things, so no one strategy can prevent them, and different cancers respond to different treatments so no one treatment can cure them all.
   But as you say, we’ve come a long way and thanks to research some cancers CAN be cured these days. Seven out of ten children are cured of cancer. Testicular cancer, Hodgkin’s disease, and many cases of leukaemia can all be cured in adults with chemotherapy, most skin cancers are cured with surgery, and many cases of thyroid cancer and cancer of the larynx are cured with radiotherapy.
   Many other types of cancer are also cured if they are found early enough. There is still a long way to go though, especially with some of the commonest types of cancer such as lung, breast, bowel and prostate cancer.
   There is much dedicated (and still underfunded) research going on into cancer and treatments are improving all the time.
   **I see the conspiracy theorists have begun to answer this question.
   There have been no ‘banned’ cancer cures – some quack treatments have been banned to prevent charlatans making money form ineffective and sometimes dangerous ‘treatments’.
   In order to prove that any secret, hidden cure worked, several hundred people would have to have been cured by it (otherwise how would its discoverers know it worked?). Every single one of these people would be keeping quiet about it– not a word to the media from any of them, or any of their delighted relatives and friends.
   And drug companies would be keeping quiet about the cure too, even though it would bring them fame and fortune. Any drug company discovering a cure would make far more money than they can have dreamed of making up till now.
   Doctors, scientists, researchers etc would be watching their relatives die and dying themselves (they and their families develop cancer at the same rate as the rest of the population) rather than revealing the existing secret cure
   Most unlikely of all, every medical professional in the whole world would have agreed to keep existence of a cure secret. Every single one. One blabbermouth, one disgruntled researcher or sacked nurse and the whole conspiracy’s blown. Newspapers and other media wouldn’t have got a sniff of it. Likely? -and is it likely that these people, who went into medicine to help people, would be conspiring to kill them? If they wanted to make a fortune, medicine was a very poor choice of career.
   And governments? Consider this: I live in the UK. I had surgery, chemo and radiotherapy. I paid not one penny for it, because we have a national health service; the state paid for it. We have exactly the same treatments as people in America, whence these conspiracy theories usually come. BELIEVE ME, if there were an effective cure, they’d pick that over expensive chemo; as it is I may be back some time with a recurrence to cost them even more money. And my oncologist, my surgeon, my family doctor all drew exactly the same salary during my treatment as they would have had I never had cancer, so they wouldn’t benefit from any conspiracy to hide a cure.
   The ’secret cure’ conspiracy theory is a sort of game played by people who have not had cancer.

   Posted on 23-Nov-09 at 7:57 pm | Permalink
6. lo_mcg

   cancer resarch on yahoo answers?

   Posted on 23-Nov-09 at 7:57 pm | Permalink

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