Will there ever be a cure for cancer? the asco meeting has so much promise.

Cancer is not: One disease, or one genetic chnge, but many. Drugs are poisons with side effects, and tumors are smart enought to learn to resist. Single genetic mutations are cured with miracle drugs. Many drugs now hope to keep cancers at bay and allow you to live with the cancer rather than obliterating it. The most fearsome of cancers is glioblastoma (brain tumors) and pancreas cancer. Few baby steps only.

Likely: Most current research is designed to discover ways to treat cancer that has already started. Basic research is trying to uncover what is wrong with a cancer cell and why it got that way. When that knowledge is gained, then something to stop that will likely follow in short order.