Does anyone believe "they" will never find a cure?

Whenever some celebrity is plugging their favorite charity, which happens to be a cancer research charity (or some of incurable fatal illness) they say their charity is trying to find a cure "and I believe that's possible". That seems like a silly thing to say. Of course it's possible! But I started thinking...are there really people in the world who think it is impossible to ever find a cure for cancer, AIDS, etc? If so...why?

Tarkarri, that is a good point. Maybe they say "I believe it is possible" to try and give hope to those who have given up.

Given there are hundreds of different types of cancer, I don't believe they will find a single cure.

However, I do believe they will find hundreds of cures for the hundreds of cnancer types.

Given that many cancers are now very successfully treatable, perhaps we are already on the way.

It is just that the treatments are onerous in their own right, and none come with a 100% guarantee!

Rather than believing we will never find a cure, I think many people are exhausted from the battle of either fighting the disease themselves or loosing loved ones to the disease, this tends to give them a gloomy outlook.

the cure for any particular cancer could be fond tomorrow, next week or next century, but it will only be found if we keep trying.

I honestly believe they probably have already found a cure for some things or are really close. It just makes more money for everyone to play like they haven't.

Cancer, in particular, is a bigger problem that just 'finding a cure'. We've spent trillions in the last century in cancer research and we've gotten a lot for our money. Some kinds of cancer that used to be a death sentence are now 95% curable. But the same number of people die of cancer now as did 100 years ago. There are new kinds of cancer and some that used to be extremely rare but are not more common. A lot of this is that we have more stress than before, and more pollutants in our environment. And a lot of is that if you get cancer and it is cured, you stand a much bigger chance of getting some other cancer that will kill you.

We have found cures (and preventive measures, like vaccines) for MOST diseases that used to kill people. Things like polio, tuberculosis, diptheria, etc.etc. 150 years ago only about half to 2/3 of children grew to adulthood! We had a terrible epidemic of flu just after WWI that killed literally tens of millions of people in the US and Canada. So you can see we've come a long way!

One ongoing problem is that medical research is conducted and directed by the companies that make the drugs, even though it is often paid for by the taxpayers. These companies would much rather make a drug to treat the disease, a drug you have to take for the rest of your life, than to find a -cure for the disease. So we never find cures for the biggest problems like choleresterol, diabetes, arthritis, allergies etc., only lifetime drug regimens.

no, because "they" dont really want to.

I read that they all ready have....an herb called Birm

I believe that there is definitely cures now and more coming for cancer. I had an aunt who died within 2 months of finding out she had Hodgkin's Disease in 1950. In the year 1999 I was diagnosed with Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma Stage 4. After chemotherapy I was considered in total remission. Yes there is a cure. I went recently to a symposium on cancer research and learned that they are working on cures of cancer that are DNA specific. If this works, they give you a special cocktail and you are cured and not in remission. The problem with it is that it is cost prohibitive now. Each cure has to be made for each individual. What works for you won't work for me. They are close to figuring this problem out. They said probably within 10 to 20 years this will be truly available.

As for other diseases, we have not found one cure for any virus as yet. Once we do AIDS, the flu, and the common cold will be gone forever. I have to believe in the positive attitude on all of these things. I am 60 years old and amazed at what new things have appeared in my lifetime and wonder what will come next. For example I remember polio and the iron lung. Now there is no polio and no one knows what an iron lung is anymore.

I also remember only black and white TV with a screen 4" in size. Everyone should know that 50% of everything ever invented was done in the last 100 years. Can't wait for the next 100 years.

The trouble with finding a cure for cancer is that cancer is hundreds of diseases, not just one. The difficulty is that different cancers are caused by different things, so no one strategy can prevent them, and different cancers respond to different treatments so no one treatment can cure them all. There will never be a magic bullet that cures all cancer, but there is much research and dedicated hard work going on in all types of cancer to try and find cures. Treatments will continue to become more effective, and cures will be found.

And some cancers can already be cured Seven out of ten children are cured of cancer. Testicular cancer, Hodgkin's disease, and many cases of leukaemia can all be cured in adults with chemotherapy, most skin cancers are cured with surgery, and many cases of thyroid cancer and cancer of the larynx are cured with radiotherapy.

Many other types of cancer are also cured if they are found early enough. There is still a long way to go, especially with some of the commonest types of cancer such as lung, breast, bowel and prostate cancer.

There is no hidden cancer cure, no conspiracy to hide a cancer cure from us as some people here have suggested.. The conspiracy theory is an urban myth, a sort of game played by those who have not had cancer or close experience of it.

If there were such a conspiracy drug companies would either be keeping quiet about the cure or making no effort to find one even though it would bring them fame and fortune. Any drug company discovering a cure would make far more money than they can have dreamed of making up till now.

And doctors, scientists, researchers etc would be watching their relatives die and dying themselves (they and their families develop cancer at the same rate as the rest of the population) rather than co-operate to find a cure or revealing the existing secret cure

And in order to prove that any secret, hidden cure worked, thousands of people would have to have been cured by it. They鈥檇 all be keeping quiet too 鈥?not a word to the media from any of them either.

Most unlikely of all, every medical professional in the whole world would have agreed to keep existence of a cure secret. Every single one. One blabbermouth, one disgruntled researcher or sacked nurse and the whole conspiracy鈥檚 blown. Newspapers and other media wouldn't have got a sniff of it.

Existing treatments aren't perfect - very far from it. One day people will look back on them with horror. But they are all we have at the moment, and we know, because they have been tested and proven in double-blind clinical trials, that they save many lives and prolong many, many more; in this they differ from any alternative 'treatments'.