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health advisory Hospital Doctor Yu 2007-11-8 19:08:15

My aunt died on February 21st of this year from cancer. Millions of people donate to cancer and have been for years and years. Why havent they found a cure yet. My aunt was the least deserving of anyone to die. Why do we keep donating money if theyre slacking and cant find a for sure cure for cancer? Kemotherapy and radiation obviously doesn't work or she'd be here right now.

Answers:

They aren't slacking. It's that curing cancer is tough and very very difficult. Do you think that they'd do a better job at creating cures if they didn't have any money at all?

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My grandma had breast cancer among other health issues, but if no one put money into research for these things then she(my gma) could have died sooner without seeing her family and telling them how much she loves them. They may not have a cure but if they didn't look they wouldn't find one, at least now they have a chance.

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I'm sorry about your aunt.

People donate money to cure cancer because there isn't a cure yet they're afraid that they or someone they know will get cancer. It's precisely because chemotherapy and radiation treatment are not always effective that people donate money.

I assure you that there is research being done, and the researchers aren't slacking off. Science takes time. It may seem like nothing is happening because to the general public, all that is noteworth is a cure, but really, understanding what makes cancer cells different from normal cells, and finding ways to attack only cancer cells is so unbelievably complex that there is new information coming out all the time about it, it's just that it's not really exciting to the general public.