Most medical research results in improved rates of curing disease, rather that 100% cures -- just like antibiotics. And even more importantly, research has made a lot of deadly conditions preventable. For starters, colon cancer. Curing it once it's beyond the early stages is still difficult, but it is now 100% preventable, if you can be bothered to go in for a simple scoping every few years. Spina bifida (and the more severe neural tube defects, such as anencephaly) are now almost entirely preventable. While a few women seem to have some unusual defect which allows these devastating conditions to develop even when they have ample folic acid intake, the vast majority of cases have become preventable -- first by taking a simple vitamin pill daily, BEFORE becoming pregnant, and now, for the women who don't have their acts together enough to manage even that, folic acid has fairly recently started to be added to common foods, so that even a woman living on Twinkies and potatp chips is now getting plenty of folic acid. Another prevention on the horizon is cervical cancer, over 99% of which is caused by the endemic human papilloma virus (HPV). An HPV vaccine is already in human trials, and having tremendous success.
Medical research has produced amazing progress in length and quality of life, especially for people who can be bothered to take advantage of the simple preventive and screening measures that are now available. It's silly to imagine that one day we'll open up the newspaper and see a headline proclaiming "The Cure for Cancer has been Found!", notwithstanding the simplistic scenarios suggested by fundraising hucksters like Jerry Lewis. It doesn't work that way; it works incrementally, but still improves and saves hundreds of millions of lives.
GOVERNMENTSHRINKER WROTE: "It's silly to imagine that one day we'll open up the newspaper and see a headline proclaiming "The Cure for Cancer has been Found!", notwithstanding the simplistic scenarios suggested by fundraising hucksters like Jerry Lewis."
About three years ago, my 86 year old Mom was diagnosed with "smoldering" Multiple Myeloma. Her cancer marker numbers were increasing by 50% every time she went in. We found out about a product called PolyMVA and her cancer marker numbers DECREASED by more than 50% within a couple of months---and have STAYED down ever since.
PolyMVA is not a "cure," but it REVERSES cancer and keeps it in check. It is not cheap, but it has come WAY down since my Mom started taking it---I'm sure because of word of mouth about how fantastically well it works. And fortunately, the biggest expense is short lived because you can begin to taper off to a maintenance level (1/4th of the original amount) after a fairly short period of time.
BTW, I have NO ownership in the product, and in fact, would like to make a grant to the company in the foreseeable future, for people who cannot afford it.
I believe the first website below is run by thankful people who have been using PolyMVA and the second is the company's official website:
http://www.polymvacancersurvivors.com/information/comparison.php
http://www.polyMVA.com