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

[88m3]

I mean if you've read about cancer, why's it so hard to understand?

 

[acri1]

Here we go with the dumb conspiracy theories.

Cancer is hard to "cure" because it's not a single disease, it's an umbrella term for hundreds of different conditions characterized by abnormal cell growth. The level of complexity of cancer is huge...you have a bunch of different types of a certain cancer (ie. lymphomas), and even then each person's specific one is different.

What makes cancer really hard to treat is that the body can't distinguish between normal cells and cancer cells, so you have to try to find a way to just kill cancer cells without killing healthy cells - it's hard. Most things that would kill cancer cells effectively will also kill healthy cells. People have compared it to trying to win a war without killing any of your own men, but both sides are dressed the same and the only difference is that some of the enemy soldiers have slightly longer shoestrings or slightly different colored hats, and everybody can change clothes mid-battle.

Plus, as cancer cells divide, the new cancer cells keep mutating, so treatments aimed at killing specific cells might leave some alive due to mutating. And if you leave even a couple cancer cells alive, the tumor can just regrow.

 

[feelosofer]

A lot of cancers have about a 78% cure rate if treated early, so we're not far off.

 

[Savior]

Its already been said but cancer isn't one thing theres like 1000 diff cancers....and some cancers have a 90%+ cure rate. If you catch any cancer in stage 1 or 2 its pretty much curable also. So u need to rephrase that question breh

 

[newworldafro]

Answer:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWLrfNJICeM"]Cancer - The Forbidden Cures - YouTube[/ame]

 

[stealthbomber]

same reason weed is illegal, it would kill the prescription medicine indsutry

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

I lost a lot of family to this shyt too so yeah, I just hope this goes the way of polio one day.

 

[throughthefire]

Cancer-killing treatment has no side effects
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=728_1365112961
"Researchers might have found the Holy Grail in the war against cancer, a miracle drug that has killed every kind of cancer tumor it has come in contact with, the New York Post reported.
The drug works by blocking a protein called CD47 that is essentially a "do not eat" signal to the body's immune system, according to Science Magazine.
This protein is produced in healthy blood cells, but researchers at Stanford University found that cancer cells produced an inordinate amount of the protein thus tricking the immune system into not destroying the harmful cells.With this observation in mind, the researchers built an antibody that blocked cancer's CD47 so that the body's immune system attacked the dangerous cells.

a cure is actually coming sonner then you think..
they've done test on rats with various types of cancers and it is effective for all types of cancer..and lol at that forbiden cure documentary..they act as if those methods are banned..THEY ARE NOT..you can get them at any naturalist stores..and they do not work...the naturalist is also big business and ask any naturalist and they will say you should undergo professional care in conjunction with these "psudo-cures"

https://www.essiacfromcanada.com/

 

[Morph]

Virii (or viruses?) mutate frequently.

Some recent medications have proven very effective, keeping patients in remission for up to 30 years at a time for specific cancers (e.g. bone cancer). While other medications are just not effective at all (e.g. pancreatic cancer aka the quick killer).

Honestly, our understanding of biology and chemistry is still very primitive. It has only been 60 years since the double helix structure of DNA was discovered, and some the people who discovered it died of cancer because of the chemicals they were exposed to during lab work.

 

[unit321]

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.

You know, they still haven't found a cure for the common cold either. But, the cold is not deadly.
But to describe it to a C student, it is like putting together a puzzle without edges (like a rectangular puzzle has four sides to it), every piece is the same color, and there are 100,000,000 pieces.
All the pieces are thrown down and you have to figure it out.

But seriously, there are scientists whose main job is to research cancer. Not to find the cure but to find out what causes it. When they find out what causes it, they can better figure out a cure. Chemotherapy is a temporary fix. I had a friend who worked for the NIH. National Institute of Health and she was involved in cancer research, cause not cure. When I asked her about it, she was like, "We are not even close to any cure." So if anyone says they have the cure for cancer with some "miracle" drug, just kick them.

 

[Melt_Man]

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.

I hear you

Every month I hear about someone else getting diagnosed.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Why not just focus on the more prevelant ones, like breast cancer?

 

[ROFL_GUY]

One drug to rule them all: Researchers find treatment that kills every kind of cancer tumor - NYPOST.com

esearchers might have found the Holy Grail in the war against cancer, a miracle drug that has killed every kind of cancer tumor it has come in contact with, the New York Post reported.

The drug works by blocking a protein called CD47 that is essentially a "do not eat" signal to the body's immune system, according to Science magazine.

This protein is produced in healthy blood cells, but researchers at Stanford University found that cancer cells produced an inordinate amount of the protein thus tricking the immune system into not destroying the harmful cells.

With this observation in mind, the researchers built an antibody that blocked cancer's CD47 so that the body's immune system attacked the dangerous cells.

"What we've shown is that CD47 isn't just important on leukemias and lymphomas," says Weissman. "It's on every single human primary tumor that we tested." Moreover, Weissman's lab found that cancer cells always had higher levels of CD47 than did healthy cells. How much CD47 a tumor made could predict the survival odds of a patient.

To determine whether blocking CD47 was beneficial, the scientists exposed tumor cells to macrophages, a type of immune cell, and anti-CD47 molecules in petri dishes. Without the drug, the macrophages ignored the cancerous cells. But when the anti-CD47 was present, the macrophages engulfed and destroyed cancer cells from all tumor types.

 

[Serious]

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

honestly I tried to read through that thread sober, but I'll just bookmark it for later. I couldn't even make it past the first post

 

[HowardHughes]

Its not so simple