Will Cancer Ever Be Cured?

ProTruckDriver said:
Staying optimistic and keep fighting the battle, don't give up! @Gemma Thoughts and prayers to your husband and family.
My wife was diagnosed with breast cancer 4 years ago. We caught it in time and all she had was radiation treatments. She is still seeing the Oncologist for blood work every 6 months. Blood work is normal, no signs of cancer anymore. We hope and pray it will stay that way. As for me with Leukemia (CLL) I'm doing the "Watch & Wait" for the last 9 years. Blood work is not the greatest but it isn't bad enough for chemo, It's holding steady and hopefully I will not need chemo since CLL as of right now is incurable.
Will they find a cure for cancer? I hope they do.
While I was over the road driving I had a load to deliver to St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis Tennessee. It was very sad seeing those children with cancer. I will never forget that delivery. :(
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Thank you @ProTruckDriver. Don't plan on giving up the fight...we take one day a time and continue to go forward.

Good news to hear about your wife. I hope blood work always comes back normal & she continues to stay healthy. And you with Leukemia...I wish you only the best. Keeping a positive attitude helps.

Yes, it is heartbreaking to see children with cancer. My friends son had leukemia. He was the happiest boy one would ever want to see. They put him through so much. Towards his 12th B-day, he told his mother he couldn't bare going through another bone marrow transplant. He couldn't tolerate the pain of them anymore. It's awful seeing a child go through this and deteriorate from it. I was happy to spend quality time with him during the day while his mother worked. He will always hold a special place in my heart.
 

I've read somewhere that it's best to leave some cancers alone...treatment will make it worst. Not too sure about that.
 

mellowyellow said:
Am thinking about the members of this forum who are going through treatment for cancer at this time, I think you are courageous and very brave.
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Everyone on this forum who is dealing with cancer, and everyone who is standing by and supporting them has my admiration. Some of these treatments are pretty rough and long.
My own treatment for prostrate cancer was not fun, but when I glanced into the waiting room for those dealing with lung or breast cancer, I felt humbled. Theirs was really rough, and many had chemo and radiation and hormone treatment. Some of those treatments went on for five years.
I am getting close to the finish line and only have the effects of the hormone treatment to wear off before I get my life completely back. Altogether it has been over 2 1/2 years for me so far.
So Gemma, hang in there. Increasingly more and more of us are surviving and going on for many more happy productive years of life
 
Murrmurr said:
And they are working on it - they get plenty of funding. I'm guessing all they need to do is crack the code, and I'm sure that'll happen. I don't see why it won't.
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They will crack the code, with the help of increasingly powerful computers and sophisticated modeling...it's just a matter of time.

I used to participate in a distributed computing project called Folding@Home. The goal is to develop new therapeutics for a variety of diseases by the means of simulating protein dynamics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home
 
My niece had a very rough go with non-Hodgkins lymphoma treatments (she's been clear a couple of years now, thank heavens). She said that it used to drive her crazy when people would tell her how brave she was. She'd say to me, "What was the alternative? Roll over and die? Of course people with cancer suffer through godawful treatments until hope is exhausted. Courage has nothing to do with it - it's a matter of self-preservation."

I am not so cynical as to believe that there are cures for cancers being held back by pharma companies. The scientists who came up with these cures would have documentation splashed all over the front pages of every newspaper in the country, even if only to get his/her Nobel Prize and to cement a place in history.
 
Remember when we all thought there would never be a cure for AIDs? Well we were right, but they did find a way to keep it tamped down so the ill person can lead a normal life. I've heard one cancer doctor on NPR say that he thought that was the future for cancer. We could have it but keep it under control.

There are also doctors like Joel Fuhrman who believe we can keep cancer from growing in our bodies with proper nutrition. I've been meaning to try his anti-cancer mushroom soup recipe.

Recipe
 
Gaer said:
It's my opinion the cure for Cancer has already been found.
it has been hushed because of greed.
it's all about money.
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Cancer is like a virus-so many types. Some forms of cancer can be cured, some forms can be controlled, and for some cancers there is no cure and will be no cure. As for greed, there are plenty of other medical issues to replace the various forms of cancer that no one in the medical profession has to worry about a lack of work, IMO.
 
Murrmurr said:
But let's say the cure is something as simple and cheap as replicating a virus or splicing DNA, something that costs very little at this point because we already have the tools. Don't you think corporations and Big Pharma could put just about whatever price they wanted on a cure for cancer and rake in trillions a month on that alone? Even if they discovered a cure for only 1 or 2 types of cancer, they could become even more powerful than they already are.
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I see your point, and agree with the thought but.

If that would be the case, it would not feed the clinics / cancer centers,etc. Also it would mean the end of research grants [for the most part] . The clinitians & reasearch scientist would need something new to conquer.

Locally we had two hospitals close when a cure for tuberculosis was "discovered" , back in the 60's. I believe the medical community learned a lesson form that. jmo. .......... They will IMO, never make that mistake again.

Just think about all the jobs that cancer provides ......... it's staggering.
 
StarSong said:
If big pharma companies could cure cancer they would. The people at the helm of those corporations also get cancer - as do their loved ones. They grieve their losses, too.
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Well, I respectfully disagree ......... IMO they are very willing to "roll the dice" in favor of the masive amounts of money it provides. I believe their goal .... is to create medicines & therapies to ease living 'with' cancer. Extend life with it. That makes them [near] gods ....... and keeps the money rolling in.

If they cured it ?? One shot in the arm, and you're all good. Think about it, what would all those thousands of people do for a living ?
 
rgp said:
I see your point, and agree with the thought but.

If that would be the case, it would not feed the clinics / cancer centers,etc. Also it would mean the end of research grants [for the most part] . The clinitians & reasearch scientist would need something new to conquer.

Locally we had two hospitals close when a cure for tuberculosis was "discovered" , back in the 60's. I believe the medical community learned a lesson form that. jmo. .......... They will IMO, never make that mistake again.

Just think about all the jobs that cancer provides ......... it's staggering.
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I think Covid can fill the gap, hospitals are doing a booming business right now.
 
rgp said:
Well, I respectfully disagree ......... IMO they are very willing to "roll the dice" in favor of the masive amounts of money it provides. I believe their goal .... is to create medicines & therapies to ease living 'with' cancer. Extend life with it. That makes them [near] gods ....... and keeps the money rolling in.

If they cured it ?? One shot in the arm, and you're all good. Think about it, what would all those thousands of people do for a living ?
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I would find it very dispiriting to believe my fellow humans, particularly scientists, are so corrupt.

That's neither a world in which I choose to live, nor an attitude I choose to embrace.
 
rgp said:
Well, I respectfully disagree ......... IMO they are very willing to "roll the dice" in favor of the masive amounts of money it provides. I believe their goal .... is to create medicines & therapies to ease living 'with' cancer. Extend life with it. That makes them [near] gods ....... and keeps the money rolling in.

If they cured it ?? One shot in the arm, and you're all good. Think about it, what would all those thousands of people do for a living ?
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There is a shot for cancer now that teenagers take, can’t remember what kind. As I said, cancer is not one illness with one cause. There are cancers that are curable now. Others are not. My, cancer, MDS is not curable, is rare, and is long term. Doctors figured I got it when I was 19.

It is still with me. Doctors used to think everyone with MDS got adult onset leukemia then they died. It is now known that only 30% of adults get the fatal leukemia. The rest of us just slog along with various symptoms and difficulties. Mine is not a popular cancer, long way for a cure.
 
StarSong said:
I would find it very dispiriting to believe my fellow humans, particularly scientists, are so corrupt.

That's neither a world in which I choose to live, nor an attitude I choose to embrace.
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Well once again, I believe it to be true & I stand by my opinion.

Not trying to say my opinion trumps your's but. Think about it , do some reasearch on the 'industry' of cancer, do the math. Where else is all that money going to be made? where else are all those folks going to be employed ?
 
rgp said:
Well once again, I believe it to be true & I stand by my opinion.

Not trying to say my opinion trumps yours but. Think about it , do some research on the 'industry' of cancer, do the math. Where else is all that money going to be made? where else are all those folks going to be employed?
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There will always be diseases to prevent, cure and/or manage. Diabetes, heart disease, strokes, Alzheimer's and other causes of dementia, kidney disease, liver disease and respiratory diseases come immediately to mind.
 
StarSong said:
There will always be diseases to prevent, cure and/or manage. Diabetes, heart disease, strokes, Alzheimer's and other causes of dementia, kidney disease, liver disease and respiratory diseases come immediately to mind.
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True I suppose, but like cancer I believe they have a cure for thoses already. But those too will never be announced. But the topic here is cancer.
 
rgp said:
True I suppose, but like cancer I believe they have a cure for thoses already. But those too will never be announced. But the topic here is cancer.
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OMGosh, I sometimes wonder where you get your ideals from that lead you to such conclusions and beliefs. You believe there is a cure for “those diseases”. Let’s take kidney disease, which like viruses can take many forms.

One if the medicare questions are ”do you have end stage renal failure”, cause if you do, then medicare will foot the bill. You seriously think that if there was a cure, Medicare would pay? 🤦🏻‍♀️ Then there are the wide variety of genetic family inherited special orphan kidney diseases. That are not even being investigated.

My grandfather died of kidney disease, our family has our own special rare kidney disease which is passed through the females in the family. I have it. I have had one kidney fail and in stage three failure with the other kidney. Both birth son and daughter inherited the disease. Which is my daughter decided to adopt and not have birth children. We all have bleeding kidneys, and other complications. There is no cure but death.

You are seriously mistaken.
 
Aneeda72 said:
OMGosh, I sometimes wonder where you get your ideals from that lead you to such conclusions and beliefs. You believe there is a cure for “those diseases”. Let’s take kidney disease, which like viruses can take many forms.

One if the medicare questions are ”do you have end stage renal failure”, cause if you do, then medicare will foot the bill. You seriously think that if there was a cure, Medicare would pay? 🤦🏻‍♀️ Then there are the wide variety of genetic family inherited special orphan kidney diseases. That are not even being investigated.

My grandfather died of kidney disease, our family has our own special rare kidney disease which is passed through the females in the family. I have it. I have had one kidney fail and in stage three failure with the other kidney. Both birth son and daughter inherited the disease. Which is my daughter decided to adopt and not have birth children. We all have bleeding kidneys, and other complications. There is no cure but death.

You are seriously mistaken.
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"OMGosh, I sometimes wonder where you get your ideals from that lead you to such conclusions and beliefs."

Well, I think things through, as opposed to just believing what I'm told.

And they're ideas .... not ideals

Again, 'those' diseases make billions of dollars, for thousands of people.

Greed is a very strong motivator !

Family & friends aside .......... few actually care wether you live or die.
 
Aneeda72 said:
OMGosh, I sometimes wonder where you get your ideals from that lead you to such conclusions and beliefs. You believe there is a cure for “those diseases”. Let’s take kidney disease, which like viruses can take many forms.

One if the medicare questions are ”do you have end stage renal failure”, cause if you do, then medicare will foot the bill. You seriously think that if there was a cure, Medicare would pay? 🤦🏻‍♀️ Then there are the wide variety of genetic family inherited special orphan kidney diseases. That are not even being investigated.

My grandfather died of kidney disease, our family has our own special rare kidney disease which is passed through the females in the family. I have it. I have had one kidney fail and in stage three failure with the other kidney. Both birth son and daughter inherited the disease. Which is my daughter decided to adopt and not have birth children. We all have bleeding kidneys, and other complications. There is no cure but death.

You are seriously mistaken.
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"You are seriously mistaken."

You are seriously naive.
 

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