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Asked by Frankie to Lesley, Alex on 23 Jun 2015.
Question: Is it possible to ever truly cure cancer?
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Lesley Pearson answered on 23 Jun 2015:
I would say yes, it is theoretically possible to truly cure cancer. But in order to do so, we need to move our understanding away from cancer being a single disease to being a very large number of very different diseases. I think that the way forward is gong to be targeted treatments that are different for every patient.
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Richard commented on :
Hi Frankie,
One of my students, doing a project on cancer, said “Cancer is what you die of if something else doesn’t kill you first”. If we can solve the inevitability of cancer, then we will have cured it.
Best wishes
Richard
Frankie commented on :
Thank you Lesley and Richard! 🙂