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Asked by @lucyy_walkerr to Andrew, Lizzie, Nick, Sonia on 20 Jun 2015.
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Elizabeth Kapasa answered on 20 Jun 2015:
I’m really sorry to hear that. My Nonno (grandfather in Italian) had cancer too and passed away a few years ago. So I know it is a terrible thing.
Cancer is caused by mutations that constantly happen in our body all the time so normally our bodies are really good at detecting it and killing that abnormal cell or that abnormal cell will kill itself. So it would be difficult to prevent cancer since it happens naturally. But there do seem to be a lot of promising targeted therapies to treat cancer. I guess time will tell!
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anon answered on 21 Jun 2015:
We are already curing a lot of cancers and survival rate for many cancers has increased. When I first worked in bone marrow transplants in the early 1980s survival rates were very low and can be very dishartening. Now it’s the treatment of choice for many types of cancers and genetic disorders. There are many technologies on the horizon which can prolong life and improve the quality of life for cancer sufferers, the side effects of treatments are not pleasant.
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Andrew Phillips answered on 23 Jun 2015:
Sorry to hear that. Cancer treatment is improving all the time, but I think there will need to be a radical new approach to stop cancer. I think it can be done, but it will probably be a method that has only just been thought of, or hasn’t be thought of yet. I’ve seen some recent work that can direct the body’s own immune system to attack the cancer, which seems very promising.
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