Why isn't there a cure for cancer?

Question

It's really sad and depressing when cancer patients get told that there's nothing that can be done to treat the cancer and that they're just going to die. back in 2019 my grandpa died from lung cancer because the doctors couldn't do anything about it. why is cancer such a hopeless and incurable disease?

Answer 1

Yes, there is I had cancer of the tongue and had a 14 hour ope under 5 doctors,

And then I had 30 days of Radiotherapy, It has been a long hard road but I am clear now.  

Answer 2

There are cures for  Some. Many have beat it.

Its usually only if ought too late and mestaticised ( gone  into lymph  nodes) that it  cant be cured.

Skin c.  only needs  LN2 or a laser.

Answer 3

there is cure they use chemo to fight it i had cancer i went through chemo and won the cancer is gone i have to get a pet scan to see if its still gone 

Answer 4

Cancer is not a single disease but a name for a group of diseases that share certain characteristics.



Some cancers are curable. I have a spouse because the kind of leukemia they had boasted a five percent cure rate with certain chemotherapy drugs and they were in that lucky group. (And doctors virtually never use the word "cure" when it comes to cancer.)



I grew up with a mother because even in more primitive medical times, uterine cancer was curable by removing the whole thing and irradiating the abdomen. I was in my 30s before the damage caused by her radiation therapy took her life, instead of losing her when I was 3.



My sister is alive for a similar reason, her cancer cured by cutting the diseased part from her body, followed by massive radiation therapy.



Cancer research takes money, and the cancers getting the money are the ones seeing progress toward cures. It's also helpful if the patient does not live a lifestyle that increases their cancer risks and gets regular check ups and screening so cancers are detected early.

Answer 5

A few years ago, I owned shares in this biotech that was doing wonders in discoveries about cancer. They might have even been close to a cure. Then when people were excited about their findings, their stock was selling very well and what might have been, they were bought by a huge pharmaceutical company. Now I dont usually believe in conspiracy theories, but I think that its quite possible that a cure has been found, but its been buried by big pharma. None of that info that was a part of that bought company was ever talked about again, so it was basically bought to shut them up in my opinion. Think about it. How many millions and possibly billions would these pharmaceutical companies lose if a cure for cancer was found? Cancer is a big reason they are able to make their money. How many pills does a cancer patient have to take? 

Answer 6

My cousin had a saying -----------" everyone has cancer, it's only a matter of time before it shows up." Cancer seems to be 'built in' with the cells or DNA of the body. We have to identify this disease as it seems to hide, waiting to be 'triggered' into developing. Perhaps we need 'birth control' for cancer cells. Problem is, you have to separate the good cells from the bad. Perhaps it is a 'body product' that causes cancer rather than 'rouge' cells. 

Answer 7

There is a cure and the cure is by abstaining by unhealthy foods and eating raw healthy foods along with exercise. 



Search Steve beats cancer. 

Answer 8

There are so many different types of cancer, but generally cancer starts of as one bad cell that if let go undetected it will have crept into other organs making successful treatment untenable 

Answer 9

No cure can be found....I know the feeling. I have a relative who died from it too.

Answer 10

Yes there is.             



Idk, I am a pharmacologist, we design drugs, but the patient care is mainly up to clinicians. As a pharmacist too, I had patients who healed completely from Cancer last year. There was an antibody that came out for colon cancer which just 2 years ago, and colon cancer is the worst one, lung cancer had a monoclonal antibody back 4 years ago and it was even better... so again it depends... 



But the patients I treated who got better, could have not been treated 30 years ago as the drugs were not there. In fact, I like you, lost relatives (grandparents) a long time ago, as there was not enough research... or there was research and not published. 



I mean, 70 years ago you would die from diabetes, as there was no biotechnology, which you have today with the insulins... My doctor died last year, but I think it was because of the covid. And it could be your grandad could have got that too as cancer patients are immunosuppressed. 

The best hospitals for Cancer are Cancer Institutes, we have those in Europe, not sure where you are from, but example my grandmom was in a country which didn't have it as they cared more about luxury items (luxury goods) than on necessity goods. 

Cuba and Romania are said to have the best healthcare in the world, and they are considered "poor". 



But I have heard really read dreadful stories about nurses too I won't share lol. The nurses I know all great, but there are stories I have heard of really bad nurses. I reject jobs with bad staff as I get angry, but example doctors take them on and it's not easy and they see stuff that is pretty scary too. And then the fault is of the doctor if they miss those "crazy" things... so yes healthcare can definitely be funded a bit more. 



Edit: A lot of hospitals now offer gene therapy which cures cancer and it was discovered in the 80s by some French physicians, but in some specific religions it is not allowed and there are ethical discussions around it, but nothing stops you from taking the patient out somewhere else. 

Answer 11

Cancer is not a foreign invader, it is your own cells that have mutated into something abnormal.  Most of the time those defective copies die undetected without causing any problems but sometimes those cells multiply and disrupt normal body functions.  All cancers are more easily treated when caught early but some types just don't respond well at all to current treatments.

Answer 12

There has been a lot of progress, many survive today, who would not have in the past. There are many different cancers that affect humans, so not so easy to beat them all.

Answer 13

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