I love it when wolfie bites the hook... so predictable... yes post graph JUST because Wikipedia says so, when ANYONE can edit an article. Simpleton Joe is so happy with big brother, just shhh and bleat for me.
They already have a vaccine for cervical cancer. I don't really get how they can not expand from there and come up with vaccines for other cancers.
Those numbers are not accurate.. Very misleading numbers..
Someone dies from lung cancer they ask "were they a smoker", then they automatically put them in that statistic. Many MANY people get lung cancer who have never even touched a cigarette.
I've always been worried that many don't wanna find a cure. Too much money to be lost in treatment. If medication is developed that cured cancer....billions lost. Hope thats not the case...but i wonder after seeing 5 family members die of cancer is last 7 years.
I've said this in other Threads about Cancer.... My 100% opinion is the Cure is Out there, and the Gov. holds it back for the same reasons above.
I have a very large family and up until 6 months ago no one EVER had cancer in my family. We get parkinsons and lupus and some other diseases such as diabetes (which I have) high blood pressure and cholesterol. Other than that cancer has never even been an after thought among us. My aunt had very bad tooth pain about 6 months ago and a long story short, she now has full blown, stage 4 mouth, jaw, and throat cancer. It is so bad that it has been deemed incurable. She elected to go into hospice and live the rest of her now short life, as pain free as possible with medication and low doses of chemo. She has a feeding tube now and a trach in her throat and will not be with us very much longer. We have accepted this as a family and she also is aware of her fate.... Are we close to a cure for this horrible disease or will it be something that will forever baffle our doctors and scientists?
Really sorry to hear that, Maxx. A very good friend of mine had a brother in law pass away recently from some kind of spinal cancer that doctors believed originated as an oral infection.
So many people put off going to the dentist, but doing so regularly may very well save your life.
As far as the original question, I think anyone who came out with a cure would become one of the richest people on the planet very quickly. It's an extremely complex disease to try to cure or reverse. It really sucks that so much money has been spent and scientists don't seem to be any closer to a cure than they were years ago.