Seriously, wtf is taking so long to find a cure for Cancer?

[dtownreppin214]

Somebody break it down for a lifelong C student in science.

This damn disease is starting to hit too close to home.

Worst part is it seems like you can live a perfectly healthy lifestyle, nutrition, exercise and still catch it.

 

[Hiesenberg]

Cure for cancer = Collapse of medical industry

 

[concise]

Cancer is not one disease but a classification of a bunch of diseases. Many of them with different causes, like chemicals, radiation, viruses, or genetics. Each person will react to these things differently. Just like some people can smoke cigs until they die, and it will give some cancer.

Also, catching and treating the tumors as early as possible for many cancers improves your chances of survival, long term life rates, and decreases the need for some of the weapons grade treatments that can cause other damage. So don't cut regular doctor visits out of your life.

 

[Emperor Sol]

There likely are cures that are proven to work. It's just that these cures are not profitable to the drug companies and as such they aren't interested in using them.

With the amount of time and money that's gone into cancer research, I'd be hard-pressed to think that there isn't ONE cure for cancer out there. Chemotherapy treatments are not very safe, and in some cases, kill patients long before the cancer itself does.

 

[Illeye buckmatic]

Insurance companies

 

[Metta World Movement]

Answer:

 

[dtownreppin214]

I was hoping this wasn't just a big conspiracy.
@bk can you move to HL.

 

[god shamgod]

My moms got that shyt I wish they could cure it cuz that's some scary shyt to think about.Too many people be dying of cancer 2 of my childhood friends parents died of lung cancer

 

[concise]

I remember I posted in a thread about this a while before, so I'll just link to that post and get out of this thread.

http://www.the-coli.com/locker-room/60678-so-weve-found-cure-cancer-2.html#post2237365

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

Cure for cancer = Collapse of medical industry

There likely are cures that are proven to work. It's just that these cures are not profitable to the drug companies and as such they aren't interested in using them.

THEN WHY DO PEOPLE STILL DIE OF CANCER IN COUNTRIES WITH UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE LIKE BRITAIN, BROTHER?

 

[Serious]

@Kool G Trap

 

[thekingsmen]

 

[zerozero]

Cancer is not one disease but a classification of a bunch of diseases. Many of them with different causes, like chemicals, radiation, viruses, or genetics. Each person will react to these things differently. Just like some people can smoke cigs until they die, and it will give some cancer.

This is a good start, but to add, the actual mechanism of cancer isn't like an infection where you can just remove the bad things and it's all good. It's more like HIV or an allergy; the "bad" stuff is just an aberration of the "good stuff" that goes on in your body. You can't just stop the mechanisms that cancerous cells use because they are the basic replicating mechanisms that your REGULAR cells use

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

 

[Data-Hawk]

https://www.khanacademy.org/science/biology/cell-division/v/cancer

Good break down.