Fred Hutch director: We can cure cancer by 2025 (Watch Video)

KING 5 ^ | 10/13/2017 | Chris Daniels, KING

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Great, but if a simple infection kills you because antibiotics don’t work it’s not of much value.

[b4me]

people are living cancer free for decades now, after having had cancer diagnosis. Got a few in my relatives.

cancer treatment is a business they will never “cure” it because they would have no job.

All disease/illness is related to toxicity and imbalance of some nutrient, hormone necessary substance in the body.

My mom was given 3-12 months to live with a very aggressive form of cancer and she’s at 18 months and doing amazingly well her current doctors say. Her original doctors at a big name NYC cancer facility wrote her off. They just wanted to mange her death not having any strategy for her to actually try to live and get well.

[JustaTech]

Cancer is something you “treat”. Curing cancer would be highly disruptive and is therefore off limits. That’s how it’s been for many decades, and it pays off VERY well for all involved.

Well, except cancer patients and their families of course, but they don’t have a lobby.

[bgill]

Can and will are two different things. There’s too much money in cancer treatments.

[Lou L]

First of all, there is not one "cancer" to be cured, but many. Although all cancers are generally defined as "abnormally growing cells within an organism," each have their own unique oncogenesis and growth mechanisms.

Second,the ignorance on threads like these--especially on FreeRepublic--is genuinely disappointing.

[ifinnegan]

“I think it could already be cured...”

How?

[School of Rational Thought]

2025?

My cancer will take me out long before then.

[ifinnegan]

“...And a flying car in every garage. 2025? This is a pitch for mo’ money.”

Yes.

But, it is a worthy avenue to spend on.

The improvements in cancer treatment, without a “cure” per se, in our life time has been tremendous.

[libh8er]

Can you give a little more detail ? What aggressive cancer did she have ? And how does an aggressive cancer just go away without aggressive treatment ?

[TigersEye]

+1

Superstition is more prevalent today than it was in the Middle Ages.

[Aria]

Second,the ignorance on threads like these--especially on FreeRepublic--is genuinely disappointing

I agree. Teams of dedicated people saved me. So many of them are truly wonderful.

[sparklite2]

Superstition is more prevalent today than it was in the Middle Ages.

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But it’s ‘nuanced.’
;)

[TigersEye]

LOL

Yeah!

[Fightin Whitey]

And a flying car in every garage.

And pot in every chicken!

[wgmalabama]

+1.

As a relative recent cancer survivor.

I cannot tell you how many people tried to warn me of big pharmaceutical conspiracy when I had stage IV cancer was pathetic. I lost respect for many. Some people embarrassed their own children, spouses, family with that crazy crap they said. I think it’s a combination of fear and ignorance and insanity.

[grey_whiskers]

Read up on CAR-T cells.

Expensive but they've done things like stop Stage IV cancer cold.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Cancer is an industry.

[captain_dave]

That's the problem. The Big Pharma companies don't want cancer cured. Same reason the government keeps passing out bad diet information. A sick population is a profitable population.

A good start for keeping yourself free of cancer is changing your diet. Stop consuming refined sugar and reduce refined carbohydrates.

[Tennessee Conservative]

Oh, I’m sure they can. I’m not a scientist but I don’t believe for a second that cancer, AIDS, and a lot of other deadly diseases can’t be cured. Maybe I’m jaded but there is way too much money in treating rather than curing.

[ifinnegan]

It’s not that you’re jaded it’s that you have no idea what your talking about.