Will there ever be a cure for cancer?

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I have a very large family and up until 6 months ago no one EVER had cancer in my family. We get parkinsons and lupus and some other diseases such as diabetes (which I have) high blood pressure and cholesterol. Other than that cancer has never even been an after thought among us. My aunt had very bad tooth pain about 6 months ago and a long story short, she now has full blown, stage 4 mouth, jaw, and throat cancer. It is so bad that it has been deemed incurable. She elected to go into hospice and live the rest of her now short life, as pain free as possible with medication and low doses of chemo. She has a feeding tube now and a trach in her throat and will not be with us very much longer. We have accepted this as a family and she also is aware of her fate.... Are we close to a cure for this horrible disease or will it be something that will forever baffle our doctors and scientists?
 

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There will certainly be a cure once the DNA codes are fully exploted. But it will be in the form of prevention more then it will for curing.
 

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the causes of cancer are many, so the 'cures' may also be specific to certain types, we live longer in average than before so I suppose its also more common to see more of these types of things now than before.

I would be more positive on this if tobacco would disappear from the face of the earth....still there are plenty of known carcinogens around us
 

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I've always been worried that many don't wanna find a cure. Too much money to be lost in treatment. If medication is developed that cured cancer....billions lost. Hope thats not the case...but i wonder after seeing 5 family members die of cancer is last 7 years.
 

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Sorry for your losses, really!! I always wondered if they withheld the cure for the same reason you mentioned. I really didnt give it much thought either way. Now though, with a loved one preparing to die, it invites this question much more seriously.
I've always been worried that many don't wanna find a cure. Too much money to be lost in treatment. If medication is developed that cured cancer....billions lost. Hope thats not the case...but i wonder after seeing 5 family members die of cancer is last 7 years.
 

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Cancer is genetic imo.... For the most part! A cure for several types is possible imo! Cancer cells grow through mitosis at a much quicker rate than other cells! The immune system produces T & B cells along with natural killer cells which are not programed in the immune sysytem during the 1st few months of birth, theses cells will and can attack any antigen in the body... Im sure there is some way to increase these in the body..

I always asked myself why heart cancer is never among us! To my reason behind this, the oxygen levels in the blood are the highest in the heart.. Cancer cells do not do well in high oxygen levels! It seems possible to increse oxygen levels in red blood cells which would increase T cells..

To help prevent cancer i seem to think higher ph balance of the body is possible through higher alkalines in the body! But as many people say, there is way too much money involved in this.. Maybe better understanding of the amino acids and the DNA replication in the mitosis of cell division will help link the proteins causing the cancer cells..
 

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I've always been worried that many don't wanna find a cure. Too much money to be lost in treatment. If medication is developed that cured cancer....billions lost. Hope thats not the case...but i wonder after seeing 5 family members die of cancer is last 7 years.

+1....

we can CURE A lot of things in the world....

and have done most...

I lost my father to CANCER

I think,,,truely

it's about money....said to say..(we had front line access to all med's & treatments)...I'll leave it at that





true story...

we had some inside help...for my Dad...

Lasted LONGER than most.....

4+ yrs...

he succumbed....

then we heard nothing from these ...doc's...after his passing

AMAZING, I could go on forever....

the world still spins.....

sorry for the rant....
 

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i forget the name but there is a pretty cool documentary on netflix about the "business" and science of cancer and then on natural therapies

http://gerson.org/gerpress/

my hypothesis from studying anthropology is that what we eat and expose our bodies to has changed so dramatically over the past couple hundred years that our bodies which evolved over millions of years have difficulty handling all the shit we put in them...it takes the human body many many generations to adapt to things through natural selection and natural selection requires pressures which we dont have in many ways...
 

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chris rock ...." the moneys in the medicine not the cure"........... who knows
 

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chris rock ...." the moneys in the medicine not the cure"........... who knows


yep....ive donated alot to american cancer society and jimmy v foundation in the past....but have really cut back because of that exact thought.
 

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i forget the name but there is a pretty cool documentary on netflix about the "business" and science of cancer and then on natural therapies

http://gerson.org/gerpress/

my hypothesis from studying anthropology is that what we eat and expose our bodies to has changed so dramatically over the past couple hundred years that our bodies which evolved over millions of years have difficulty handling all the shit we put in them...it takes the human body many many generations to adapt to things through natural selection and natural selection requires pressures which we dont have in many ways...

agree totally, there are diets known as 'paleo diets' which are supposed to be what we all ate not long ago (10k years or more ago....really a blip in geological time)

as far as the conspiracy theories....the implication is that ALLLLLL doctors all over the world that work in cancer research are into this , I always disagree with this type of 'world conspiracy theories.

not long ago they came up a vaccine for cervical cancer....I am sure there will be a lot more money to be made offering this to 3.5 billion people than allowing a very small % of people to get sick and make money out of them
 
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agree totally, there are diets known as 'paleo diets' which are supposed to be what we all ate not long ago (10k years or more ago....really a blip in geological time)

as far as the conspiracy theories....the implication is that ALLLLLL doctors all over the world that work in cancer research are into this , I always disagree with this type of 'world conspiracy theories.

not long ago they came up a vaccine for cervical cancer....I am sure there will be a lot more money to be made offering this to 3.5 billion people than allowing a very small % of people to get sick and make money out of them

Yes because everyone involved in government and big pharma or both are more interested in your health than in their trustfund... You keep saying no, never, how could they? I hope you are right, but I do think its naive to trust the corporations blindly, and I remind you, big pharma and most governments are esentially corporations.
 

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The gov't wants you dead when you stop working and start collecting SS, Medicure, gov't pensions, etc.
 

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They will cure it but not in the next 100 years so most of us won't be alive by then. For fuck's sakes they can't cure baldness and that seems like a simpler thing to tackle than cancer. There are billions to be made from a real baldness cure and they can't do it.
 

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They will cure it but not in the next 100 years so most of us won't be alive by then. For fuck's sakes they can't cure baldness and that seems like a simpler thing to tackle than cancer. There are billions to be made from a real baldness cure and they can't do it.

Hair Club For Men, Rogaine, and hair transplant surgeons beg to differ.
 

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Yes because everyone involved in government and big pharma or both are more interested in your health than in their trustfund... You keep saying no, never, how could they? I hope you are right, but I do think its naive to trust the corporations blindly, and I remind you, big pharma and most governments are esentially corporations.

no, not every doctor works for the government same goes for scientists....not by a very long long shot, plain total paranoia..........@)
 

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removing my comment for Doug, he meant the gov only wants the old dead ,not the peasants in general
 

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removing my comment for Doug, he meant the gov only wants the old dead ,not the peasants in general

they want to kill off the seniors, not the youngsters. kill off the ones collecting benies not those financing the SS pyramid scheme.
 

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