Health Do you think we'll have a cure for cancer in our lifetime?

With some of the books I've read on cancer, they make treatments sounds rather bleak - 80% of cancer patients don't receive benefits from hospital cancer treatments, 7 months being the average life span once diagnosed with cancer, etc.

I suspect there are some promising treatments and ideas that provide real benefits to cancer patients, but the health care system we have makes it difficult to research them.
 
eddymotto said:
Anybody who thinks that curing cancer would not be incredibly lucrative has spent way too much time online. If there were a real, repeatable “cure,” it would be one of the most valuable intellectual properties in human history.

There are treatments for specific cancers that are already close to a cure, including testicular cancer (cure rates close to 95%), certain childhood leukemias (90% long term), Hodgkin lymphoma (> 80%), and thyroid cancer (> 95%). Cervical and liver cancers are largely preventable with vaccines.

My guess is that we will continue to experience the gradual compounding of better cancer treatments and some of them will verge on being "cures" for or effectively prevent specific type of cancers. Less likely that there will be some eureka moment when all cancers are suddenly cured by one technology.
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I don't agree that crevical and liver cancers are 100% preventable with any vaccines.
Also all other kind of cancers.

BTW the same testicular " cancers " aren't 1 single kind of disease, it depends from type and sub type of cells, where they had spreaded or no, reaction on chemo,( was op ablastic or no [ it is in surgery protocols usually ])...


Also with chemo it depends. You gave too much and patient will.mmm...u know.
Or too little and ...u know.
Also schemes and how they are applied....reaction patient will have and these cells will have.

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I do have, unfortunately experience how is to have spouse with this. Chemo effect was 0... surgeries and raditation slowed stuff down and I had to watch slow death during years....
One from friends was surprisingly lucky: they opted to use chemo in order to increase painkillers effect and chemo worked so well that they increased dosages and added combo ... he is working today.... ofc problem is that due to chemo he isn't fertile after this while might have fun from ****
Some 20 years ago he should be died supposedly. So for some specimens in some cases chemo works really well. Even better than had been predicted.
 
Beechwood said:
With some of the books I've read on cancer, they make treatments sounds rather bleak - 80% of cancer patients don't receive benefits from hospital cancer treatments, 7 months being the average life span once diagnosed with cancer, etc.

I suspect there are some promising treatments and ideas that provide real benefits to cancer patients, but the health care system we have makes it difficult to research them.
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1 month... might happen that will be 30 years or longer.


One from ladies I know really well , she had cancer some 32 years ago.
She get luck that shit had been spotted early and suregon was lucky and good.
He managed remove everything... real luck... cells were very dangerous and aggressive, still... she is walking like nothing had happened.
She had some suspicions about soft tissue in leg.... just this...
 
If about liver cancer : yes, one from bad factors is B hep.
Also B hep is even more dangerous than just cancer risk: it might even sit silent during years unnoticed and might ..... " explode " and kill you faster than any cancer....

B hep does have vaccine and it is advisable for persons with risk to have blood contact with other persons.

However liver cancers does have ... different ethiologies and different cells.

Also certain PEDs does increase primary liver and pancreas cancer risks and a lot ......


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With Liver stuff is that certain kind of cancers cells if will have methastasis, loves liver a lot.

Liver is porous organ and very difficult for any surgeries cos this, like splenum too. It is hell to do surgeries for these organs...
Also liver doesn't loves chemo not at all and radiation doesn't works well on all kind of cancer cells in no case....it depends ...
 
Neck&Neck said:
Early detection is key to beating cancer
I’ve been in treatment for 12 years
I’ve had the newest most advanced treatments for my cancer you can get
I’ve made it into remission multiple times, but the cancer always comes back within a couple months
My cancer is one of the most curable kinds, but since I caught it late I’m one of the few who hasn’t been able to beat it.
I’ve had so much, chemo, radiation, surgery, immunotherapy, etc, that I’m basically out of treatment options now
Treatments only work for a limited time as the cancer eventually becomes resistant to it
Then you have to switch to a different chemo, etc.

The people who say we won’t find a cure because cancer is too profitable are straight morons
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Shit mate, all the best.
 
Lots of Cancers are caused by Viruses and environmental conditions........
 
The biggest problem with talking about early detection value is fertility of shit too.

Sometimes small like peace of rice might already gave methastasis.
Sometimes large like walnut might have 0 spreading....

Also how it is checked.
Sometimes small size shit might be checked with biopsies and lab work and if stuff is bad, then scheduled surgery to remove stuff.
While cells had time to spread.
Some other specialists might opt to remove small size shit intact if possible and later to check cells what shit here was....

Therefore there in this world are ppl with decades ago remowed melanomas and sarcomas too. While both of these are one from most deadly kind of shit in oncology.
 
BTW one from politicians had normal bloodwork and Dick worked well.
Just some pain in back etc.... and ofc some deformations etc...
So surgery to deal with some problem... and after tissue research in lab : cancer Mts.
So to find from where.
# this specimen had very good insurance and even if no, to pay some 10 k from pocket for labwork alone had 0 problems. Rich.

Now is walking around, radiotherapy sessions, some 7 years since this. Yet didn't had died...walking around.
 
It's possible more shit will be solved if the religious people pipe down and let the science people discover connections between what the illness relies on vs. what shuts them down and smart AI helps.
 
Which one? The term “cancer” covers literally hundreds of thousands of diseases.
 
It's preposterous to think a cure for cancer is being kept secret. Another ridiculous conspiracy theory.

I'm in my 50s and find it unlikely a cure will be found in my lifetime but am optimistic that various treatments will improve or be discovered.

I had my first round of chemotherapy last week after having surgery to remove a cancerous growth in my chest in late October. I have what is called Primary mediastinal B cell lymphoma. Funny thing is my type of cancer is predominantly found in younger women in their 20s and 30s.
 
AFanNotAFighter said:
It's preposterous to think a cure for cancer is being kept secret. Another ridiculous conspiracy theory.

I'm in my 50s and find it unlikely a cure will be found in my lifetime but am optimistic that various treatments will improve or be discovered.

I had my first round of chemotherapy last week after having surgery to remove a cancerous growth in my chest in late October. I have what is called Primary mediastinal B cell lymphoma. Funny thing is my type of cancer is predominantly found in younger women in their 20s and 30s.
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We can’t even cure arthritis let alone cancer. We can slow arthritis down, but eventually you’ll need an artificial joint or narcotic pain meds.
 
Joe_Armstrong said:
It's not profitable to cure diseases
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There’s not many that can be cured. Chronic conditions are managed not cured in most cases. Unless the average person lives like an athlete, that’s how it’s gonna be.
 
F1980 said:
It's a disease humans have known about for thousands of years. There's heiroglyphics found in Egypt depicting breast cancer. We've made significant advances and even now, through chemo and radation therapy, cancer is no longer a guaranteed death sentence. The survival rate for cancer patients is increasing every year. But still, chemotherapy and radiation therapy is basically poisoning your body. Not really much of a cure.

Do you think we'll have a cure for all types of cancer in our generation?
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The cure is already there. Where does the money laundering I mean research money go with a cure? The money is in the scheme.

It reminds me of a certain experimental drug used pushed that caused heart attacks and strokes.

Imagine a movie where people are locked in their home and forced fed drugs that kill them? 🤣 imagine a population of people signing up for that? That would never happen.

People are too smart. 🥸
 
Sonny Qc said:
No, because it's too profitable.

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Over 100 billions $ were spent on cancer reasearch in the last 25yrs

and cancer cases continue to go up every years by a lot.


it's either too profitable or protecting the food industry or else that they know causes it.
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First post and we're already into the conspiracy theories. You probably think the oil companies killed the 100mpg carburetor too.
 
There is no money to be made when someone is cured.
 
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