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Is curing cancer an interest of the fda? are doctors and scientists closer to a cancer cure? or is cancer to complex?

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Yes to all: The national institute of health, rather than the food and drug administration, coordinates a lot of basic cancer work. We now cure 4 of 6 cancers, up from 2 of 6 when i was a kid, including regularly curing many types ofo advanced ones. There will never be a "cure for all cancers" as the intractable ones result from destabilization of the genome & evolve resistance to any rx, but things are bettr.

Answered 9/28/2016

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Curing Cancer: Cancer is a broad term referring to many difference disease processes. In short, cancer is the uncontrolled division and spread of cells. A single cure for every different kind of cancer would be extremely unlikely because different cells and different genes are involved. That is why some cancers have excellent treatments (most thyroid cancer) and others are much more difficult (pancreatic).

Answered 2/26/2013

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