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I hope there is NEVER a cure for cancer.

Too much money in pharma to allow a cure to make it to market.....saw a cure in clinical trials be taken off study due to it working too well.

Praying they find a cure for mine.

No. Cancer is not one disease but many. We may slow it down but not eliminate it.

I believe there are cures already for some cancers (and def ways to prevent) but they’re not known due to big Pharma $$$$ 😕

Perhaps with genetic engineering rather than medicine.

It’s very stupid when people say that the cure will never come because of economic reasons like the pharmaceutical industry will get killed.

You know who I are currently not helping the economy? Answer: The millions of dead people from Cancer

You know who can help the economy in the future? Answer: Millions of people that are cured of cancer and don’t die and continue to work.

Please stop with the conspiracy theories about hiding the future cure for economic reasons.

Not if I die of cancer

Will never happen, as long as, Big Pharma marketing expenditures exceed R&D. Same reason doctors won't prescribe proper nutrition before prescribing toxic chemicals with side effects; no incentives to do so.

I feel like we already have it.

Mankind has never found a cure for any illness besides anti-biotics.

There are many types of cancer, some of which can be cured now, and some that can't. I doubt there will be a cure found for every form of cancer in my lifetime, but strides have been made in some cancer treatments.

If you have seen World War Z, you know cancer to be the cure.

For some cancers yea, but all of them? I sadly doubt it :/

Nopea big pharma sees it that cancer is profitable.

I think most cancers will be cured during my lifetime, yes.

No. A patient cured is a customer lost.

Here is the closest thing to a cure IMO. Dr. Coldwell speaks about the significance of your cancerous tumor in a 57minute long video and why our bodies do what they do to protect us from Cancers
: youtu.be/DgbdNNfotwM

No cure for cancer? Someone should tell my 6 year old son who was cured of Leukemia.

Seriously though.. their are lots of forms of cancer and some are cured but many not. Some may never be (that leaves the patient alive).

Not all cancers but some yes.

If the doctors would quit being suicided and dumping themselves in the creek with two shots to the head and no car.

They’re already insecure. Western medicine chooses not to use it. I is effective and 100% reliable.

No, but I do think I will live to see the aggregate survival rate reach above 90% for most types of cancer.

An estimated 6 billion dollars in the“pink ribbon” category of sales/fundraising has been raised in recent years toward a cure for breast cancer. That’s billion. With a “b”. Annually...and yet tens of thousands of women die annually in this country from breast cancer.

To answer if they have or will have it YES, next question will they release it for the general public? I say NO! Population control, and big Pharma got to get paid to keep treating you, no more money if you are cured!

Do I think repeated questions will ever stop during my lifetime? No.

I think we will discover ways to possibly prevent it, or at least keep it away for longer. A cure doesn’t seem as feasible. It’s known that human cells will always develop cancer after so many years. Imagine if the very has we live on “oxygen” is slowly poisoning us resulting in cancer. Who knows

There is a cure for the most part. Do not smoke/ do drugs, practice fitness regularly, and eat more veggies and less sugar. A healthy lifestyle will help fight off disease.

They already have it.

I'm incredibly optimistic about Bozon therapy. 70% success rate in rats targeting and destroying cancerous cells w/o touching the healthy tissue. And that was 5 years ago.

No. Cancer isn’t just one thing

You can't have "a" cure for an entire classification of diseases, each with differing mechanisms lol

I'm sure there will be cures for some cancers in my lifetime but expecting there to be a miracle cure-all is unrealistic

I don't think so. 😔

I intend to go into research after I get my MD. It's my dream to find the cure.

There is no “cure” for cancer there are ways to fight it and we already have those but there isn’t really a “cure”

Yes, since many cures for many different things called “cancer” have already been developed in and before my lifetime and will continue to be developed.

I hope so. And that coming from a hopeful doctor

Pharmaceutical companies will lose a great deal of money if a cure is found.

According to Facebook there already is.

When I was in high school decades ago, a friend said he wouldn't quit smoking because "By the time I get lung cancer, they'll have a cure". Still waiting...

Cancer isn't a single disease where you can target a bacterium or virus.
If I'm optimistic I'll see 2050 but think even then there still will be cancer deaths though I hope by 2100, genetic therapy or nanobot tech will have it pat.

Perhaps not a cure, but I think we will see more ways to manage cancer so that it gets to the point where it kills fewer and fewer people.

That's assuming there's not already a cure.... it's just a matter of what we are able to know and how much will be apparent to us as average citizens.

I install radiation therapy equipment for a living. I’ve learned a lot about cancer, and saying “cure for cancer” is no different than saying “cure for virus.” It’s a complex disease with many different forms and methods of treatment. Chemo and radiation only work because they also kill everything else around the cancer. The differences between prostate, breast, lung, bone, colon, and every other cancer are so vast, and even the differences between prostate patient A and prostrate patient B can mean different methods of treatment. There is no such thing as a “cure for cancer,” nor will there ever be. There may be a “cure for a particular strand of cervical cancer,” but not a cure for every type of cancer.

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Probably not a cure, but maybe much cheaper treatment that helps you live a more normal life

Hmmm... there will never be one direct cure to cancer, yet I confidently believe that most forms of the hundreds of forms of cancer will be cured or close to cured by the time I die. With the new advancements in the Chimeric Antigen Receptor treatment, I believe rare forms of cancer will be easier to target.

only some via genetic targeting.

Some cancers, yes. All cancers, probably not.