Is there any hope that there will be a cure for cancer?

The problem with finding a ‘cure for cancer’ is that cancer is not a single disease, it’s an umbrella term for over 200 different diseases. The difficulty with finding a cure is that different cancers are caused by different things, so no one strategy can prevent them They all respond to different treatments so no one treatment can cure them, so there isn’t a magic bullet that cures all cancers and there never will be.

But quite a few cancers CAN already be cured: seven out of ten children are cured of cancer; testicular cancer, Hodgkin’s disease, and many cases of leukaemia can all be cured in adults with chemotherapy, most skin cancers are cured with surgery and many cases of thyroid cancer and cancer of the larynx are cured with radiotherapy.

Many other types of cancer are also cured if they are found early enough.

There’s no guaranteed cure for any type of cancer; but it’s thanks to cancer research and improved treatments that people like me are alive, fit and well following cancer treatment.

There’ll never be a Eureka! moment when somebody discovers a substance or procedure that reverses all cancers. But there will continue to be progress – perhaps the discovery of a way to reverse one type, or to slow down others, perhaps improved treatments.

The suggestion that a cancer cure exists and is kept quiet or that no attempt is being made to find one for reasons of profit – nonsense. The secret cancer cure conspiracy theory is a sort of game played by people who’ve never had, studied or been close to cancer.

Think about it for a moment

In order to prove that any secret, hidden cure worked, several hundred people would have to have been cured by it – lived out their long natural lives without the cancer reappearing (otherwise how would its discoverers know it worked?). Every single one of these people over many years would have to be keeping quiet about it– not a word to the media from any of them, or any of their delighted relatives and friends.

Any drug company discovering a cure would make far more money than they can have dreamed of making up till now – fame and fortune beyond their wildest dreams.

Doctors, scientists, researchers etc would be watching their relatives die and dying themselves (they and their families develop cancer at the same rate as the rest of the population) rather than revealing any existing secret cure

Most unlikely of all, if there were a secret cure, every medical professional in the whole world would have agreed to keep existence of a cure secret. Every single one. One blabbermouth, one disgruntled researcher or sacked nurse and the whole conspiracy’s blown. Newspapers and other media wouldn’t have got a sniff of it. Likely? -and is it likely that these people, who went into medicine to help people, would be conspiring to kill them? If they wanted to make a fortune, medicine was a very poor choice of career.

I live in the UK; we dont pay for our medical treatment. including cancer treatment. So cancer treatments cost our government billions upon billions, but the treatments are the same as elsewhere. If there were an existing, cheaper, guaranteed cure BELIEVE ME that’s what they’d be paying for. As it is someone like me could be back at any time with a recurrence for more costly chemo.

And our doctors are salaried – they wouldn’t make one extra penny if the cancer rate doubled tomorrow and the chemo rate with it.

Of course there is hope. There is even hope that a good treatment will be found in our lifetime. Search the scientific articles online and read about the latest breakthroughs on cancer treatment.

There are over 300 types of cancer. Fewere are dying. Some cancers (e.g. Hodgkins, thyroid) have gone from 20% survival to over 95%. Breast cancer survivals rates are improving.

So YES there hope and success all the time.

You cannot talk about cancer as a single disease like you cannot discuss Virus or Flu as a single disease.

Early detection and prevention strategies are the best hope for cancer. If you detect many forms of cancer at an early stage, they can be stopped or reduced. Scientists might identify the cancer gene that is passed through heredity and control it.