I find it interesting to know the researchers' predictions about the approximate time of definitive cancer treatment.
Hi, Hamidreza.
I personally pessimistic about definite cancer treatment. It depends on what stage of cancer development and how soon is cancer found. It's been so many times we nearly cure cancer even after modern advances in molecular and cellular biology. There have always been something else to control cancer all the time. It is inevitable not to think that major discoveries or novel developments announced turned out be jumping into conclusions, and following fashion games for raising funds and associated industrial business. The cell, we now understand a lot. That is not enough to treat cancer in a definite way. We have to know the causes in each case of individual and each cancer. Until we nearly understand the causes at that level, something odd is added to the list of cancer causes from the environments or some drugs or gadgets or rapidly-changing eating habits and life styles over prolonged period. This makes complete treatment of cancer further difficult to deal with.
I fully agree with Dr Lee. But may be I am a little less pesimistic. I think that there is no such a thing as a "cure for cancer" but slowly a few types of cancer become "curable". That is the case of chronic myeloid leukemia and GIST treated with imatinib and derivates. Another example is clear cell renal carcinoma that with the combination of surgery and sunitinib (or sorafenib) may be "cured" in many cases. Gastric lymphoma is highly responsive to helycobacter elimination plus imatinib, achieving excellent results in almost all the cases.
Of course, early diagnosis is still the basis of a good result. And it is quite possible that in the next 10 years it will be possible to achieve a state of chronicity for certain aggressive tumors.
There is no, and there will not be a cure for cancer as a disease, because cancer is a multiplicity of diseases. But there will be cure for certain cancers, and the list of curable cancers will be slowly increasing.
Best regards.
Thank you@Tomas Koltai for the informative answer. I do agree with you. May be it‘s not wise to generalize the term ‘cure of cancer’ Rather than a very specific form of cancer should be coined.
I am optimistic towards finding cure for certain forms of cancer as well as early detection tool.
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The cancer cells, and how they grow, remain unpredictable and in some cases mysterious. Even after seemingly effective treatments, crafty cancer cells are able to hide out in some patients and resurface. Yes there are many successful treatments today that didn't exist just a couple decades ago, but "cure for cancer" remains elusive for many reasons such as type of cancer the patient has, the stage of the cancer, the extent to which it has metastasized, and the aggressiveness of the cancer. In addition, the patient's age, general health status, and the effectiveness of the treatment being pursued are also important factors . also , it is important to note there are no two patients or cancers are exactly alike
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