• Question: How close are we from curing cancer?

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      Asked by Chaos Daemon to Alex, Anaïs, Peter, Sarwat, Shreesha on 11 Mar 2015. This question was also asked by chloe.chaplple.
      • Photo: Sarwat Iqbal

        Sarwat Iqbal answered on 11 Mar 2015:

        Its hard to predict time, but we definitely have made progress in curing cancer, and its improving day by day.

      • Photo: Anaïs Pujol

        Anaïs Pujol answered on 12 Mar 2015:

        We are currently able to cure patient from some cancer like breast cancer or Hodgkin lymphoma… currently we are curing more than one cancer on 2. The only ones which are still really harder to cure are pancreas and lungs. It is important to get an early diagnosis when the tumour is still tiny to be treat (early stage). Medical imaging has already well improved as cancer research development.

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        Peter Maskell answered on 13 Mar 2015:

        gettign closer every day but as there a many forms of cancer it is hard to tell. 10-20 years? Unfortunatley we will all die of something in the end.

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