Posted on 04/19/2018 7:58:22 AM PDT by Patriot777
Why cure it when there’s hundreds of billions to be made continuing research and treating it? My wife’s treatments cost over 40k a month.
Much more.
OK, can we define the word “cure” as it applies to any disease ( much less cancer )?
What should the attributes be to meet the “cured” criteria?
Any Oncologist making this asinine statement should revert to general practice. It is akin to a NASA program manager in the 1960's saying "I don't know if we can really make it to the Moon."
Visit any infusion center as I do every 8 weeks for Remicade. 3k a pop. Any number of chronic diseases being treated. These places are gold mines.
The key with any of it is maintenance of quality of life.
I wholeheartedly agree, more than trillions and what we can’t wrap our minds around. Truly staggering.
Being conceived is a death sentence.
Just be glad that Sharpton and Jackson haven’t figgered out way to get in on it, then you could be sure there will NEVER be a cure.
How is she doing? Count me as a skeptic and I’m from a family that is prone to cancer and my husband has been treated for rectal cancer.
I wish I had a like button. That’s all I’m going to say about that. The last time I made a comment like yours the flame throwers in here nearly set my britches on fire.
My wife was just diagnose in Feb with inoperable adenoid cystic carcinoma. We are exploring the different treatements now.
Those lawyers are making a crapload of money.
She died about 3.5 years ago. Her treatments lasted 10 months. Thanks for asking.
Look at all the people who’d be out of work.
“Curing cancer not a realistic goal, cancer scientists say”
That’s a helluva defeatest attitude to have when you are in a war.
Bkmk
The idea of “curing” cancer has always been BS.
Cancer takes so many forms, has so many components, physical, genetic, environmental, and add to that the fact that cancers mutate from one form to another and from one type of cell to another. The variations and conditions for cancer cells to grow make identifying a single point of commonality is nearly impossible.
There is not, as of yet, any prospect of one pill to kill them all that is anywhere on the horizon.
Like viruses, some of which generate cancers, cancer cells adapt and change to meet the challenge of treatments that are set up to kill the cancer.
I’ve only heard of one possibility that might show promise and that is a treatment that addresses a specific protein that researchers believe is common to all cancers. Even that protein is subject to possible alteration by the cancerous cells which will make the treatment null and void.
If a universal treatment is found, it is a long way off.
Curing cancer not a realistic goal, doctors focus on managing instead of curing disease
Whenever an “expert” makes a prediction, they are more often then not proven wrong.
I would suggest if a “cure” is found it will be the result of research on something other than cancer.
BINGO
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