Exactly. This is an important thing to remember when one hears talk about cancer being on the increase. Part (how large a part I do not know) of that increase is simply that people now do not die of other causes, so cancer automatically increases its share of deaths.
I have a question: is cancer really something we can cure 100%. isn’t it true that when some people discover they have cancer, the cancer is already in an advanced stage. i thought cancer does irreparable harm. And their is different types, some being much more delicate or difficult to deal than others… wuddya think?
hmmmm…I don’t see second-hand smoke anywhere. I thought that was what would kill all the children thus wiping out the human race
Death, lots and lots of death
jesseboy, maybe it’s a cancer vaccine that is invented. Therefor, no damage is done.
Well, not yet, of course. But it’s conceivable that we might someday develop a drug or procedure which can cure it 100%, combined with better diagnostic methods to guarantee that we find it early enough for those techniques to work.
A vaccine? I thought u could only vaccinate for viruses or bacterial strains and such. From what i understand cancer is just something that tends to occur naturally-i don’t think we know the exact causes of cancer, do we?
I’m no expert, of course, but cancer’s deadly effectiveness has something to do with the way cells divide and grow. Somebody set this straight, please
People would die of undiagnosed cancer.
And scurvy.
jesseboy, we really have no idea how a cancer vaccine would work. You’re right that now, vaccines only work for infectious diseases because they introduce foreign proteins that build up an immune response. But maybe once we’ve had some time to genetically engineer designer viruses, we’ll create a viral strain that implants cancer-resistant DNA in living cells. That could, possibly, work as a cancer vaccine.