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Originally Posted by RWebb

Besides the above, you have ask what cancer is.

There are many cancers, in many different parts of the body. They all share this: genetics have gone wrong - regulatory genes are out of control.

There will never be "a" cure for cancer. There are now, and will be many more, cures.

This. My wife is about to get her Masters (had been in a PhD program for the same study previously) and has taken many courses on genetics, micro-biology, etc..... Many of the things discussed in many of her classes have been about cancer. She did a project/paper/presentation on the BRCA gene about a month before Angelina Jolie made her big announcement.

Cancer isn't A disease. It's a whole family of diseases. (disease, may not be the best term, but you understand). There's never going to be one cure that covers all cancer. If it were ever eradicated, it would have to be because there were lots and lots of cures. (Honestly, I don't ever expect it to be eradicated)