If they can't cure Colds then how are they gonna cure Cancer.

using that logic there is still no cure for small pox.

you fail.

using that logic there is still no cure for small pox.

you fail.

Mu5uk0

i dont fail i pass all my courses

using that logic there is still no cure for small pox.

you fail.

Mu5uk0

Damn i wanted to be the first to mention all the other actual life threatening viruses thats been cured...

Well played.

[QUOTE="Mu5uk0"]

using that logic there is still no cure for small pox.

you fail.

Boomshield

i dont fail i pass all my courses

tssk tssk

what they teach you kids in schools these days...

Colds are viruses that mutate all the time.

Cancers are created withing the body unless induced by a carcinogen. A cancer is caused when the cell's replication system goes out of control, causing a tumor. Chemotherapy and medications are needed. Tumors may need to be surgically removed.

Viruses are much harder to keep track of than cancers. Some viruses are deadly, others are just inconvenient. Colds are just inconvenient and are treatable with medication to keep symptoms down. Influenza can be deadly and it mutates all the time, so that's why new vaccines need to be developed when a new strain is found.

Cancers can be curable through treatment, not by any miracle drug or anything.

Colds can be fought, but you can't get rid of it entirely.

[QUOTE="Mu5uk0"]

using that logic there is still no cure for small pox.

you fail.

Boomshield

i dont fail i pass all my courses

yeah, at fail school! amirite?

[QUOTE="Boomshield"][QUOTE="Mu5uk0"]

using that logic there is still no cure for small pox.

you fail.

Mu5uk0

i dont fail i pass all my courses

yeah, at fail school! amirite?

You just failed there, my good sir.

We can cure colds? There are thousands of different types of cold though. Once you have had a cold you then become immune to that type, its not the same cold each time you get one LOL. So this thread in innacurate and once again proves how ill educated some people are.

Folding @ Home is taking care of that,thank you.

There never will be a cure for cancer (atleast not an available one) because theres no profit in a cure. They may release different medications that will ensure u dont suffer but u will still die from it.

If a cure was to be released and all of the millions of people the world over stopped dying then all of the mega corporations that make these medicines would be out of business overnight and we all know that will NEVER be allowed to happen, the powers that be would rather us contuinue to die so they can eap massive profits from us to continue filling their own pockets.

There never will be a cure for cancer (atleast not an available one) because theres no profit in a cure. They may release different medications that will ensure u dont suffer but u will still die from it.

If a cure was to be released and all of the millions of people the world over stopped dying then all of the mega corporations that make these medicines would be out of business overnight and we all know that will NEVER be allowed to happen, the powers that be would rather us contuinue to die so they can eap massive profits from us to continue filling their own pockets.

l34052

Yes, of course! All the world's medical researchers, both in the private and public sectors, are being manipulated behind the scenes by a secret global organization. Sure, a scientist might be tempted by promises of Nobel Prizes, name in the history books, etc., but THEY will never allow it to happen. Why? Because of money; that's why!

You cannot cure a virus, only the symptoms (one of which is loss of taste, and that is my most hated one). It could be immunised but that would be impractical and expensive for the government. Cancer is simply the uncontrollable mutation of cells. All they have to do is find a common weakness in cancer cells and exploit it. A cold has millions of different variations, most of which change after a while so that they appear new.

The cold will stop existing when nobody/nothing catches one for a year or so.

[QUOTE="Mu5uk0"]

using that logic there is still no cure for small pox.

you fail.

Boomshield

i dont fail i pass all my courses

using that logic there is still no cure for small pox.

you fail.

Mu5uk0

Uh... there is no cure for small pox. There's only vaccination.

[QUOTE="Mu5uk0"]

using that logic there is still no cure for small pox.

you fail.

Oleg_Huzwog

Uh... there is no cure for small pox. There's only vaccination.

Which is essentially a cure, or at least it prevents it.ithilgore2006

Cure is post-infection. Prevent is pre-. In the incredibly unlikely case of one of us catching small pox, our chances of survival are about the same as what they would've been back in the 19th Century.

There never will be a cure for cancer (atleast not an available one) because theres no profit in a cure. They may release different medications that will ensure u dont suffer but u will still die from it.

If a cure was to be released and all of the millions of people the world over stopped dying then all of the mega corporations that make these medicines would be out of business overnight and we all know that will NEVER be allowed to happen, the powers that be would rather us contuinue to die so they can eap massive profits from us to continue filling their own pockets.

l34052

There will never be a cure for cancer because of the incredibly different varied types of cancer and the difficulty in creating a cure that destroys only the specific tumor cells without severely harming the person.

Besides, people would continue to develop cancer even if they had been cured before. In fact, a cure would probably be more lucrative than the current treatments now, because patients would have to continue to treat the cancer for the rest of their elongated lives.

[QUOTE="Mu5uk0"]

using that logic there is still no cure for small pox.

you fail.

Boomshield

i dont fail i pass all my courses

The three million posters ahead of me have already said this but: The common cold is constantly changing, it is very rare that you would get sick with the same strand twice. Not that you know which strand it is of course.

Well, there are many various types of colds, which are viruses. They mutate constantly making it hard to pin down a weakness.

Cancer isn't a virus. It's when a cell in your body that mutates and fails to carry out apoptosis (cell suicide). It then begins to duplicate itself and latch onto a specific part of your body. In most (if not all cases) it is the p53 gene failing. The cells can also spread around your body, also called metastasize.

My cousin just died of cancer. Was in her liver and lungs. Meaning it metastasized from one spot into another (actually was in 2 spots on the liver). Caused by smoking.

A cold virus strand changes thats why we are forever catching them. We will be able to stop cancer because it killing people so we deicate reasearch to find a cure for all types.Philx3

No we wont, the medical industry would suffer if we found a cure

[QUOTE="Philx3"]A cold virus strand changes thats why we are forever catching them. We will be able to stop cancer because it killing people so we deicate reasearch to find a cure for all types.xscrapzx

No we wont, the medical industry would suffer if we found a cure

Cancer can change just as much, if not more than a virus. We may be able to stop certain types of cancer, or reduce the risk of it, but we will forever be locked in a struggle against cancer, ensuring that the medical industry will always have a source of income.

There is no panacea for all of life's ills. The medical industry will never go out of business.

I think applying nanotechnology towards medicine will yield a cure for cancer.

Think about it, just program mini robots (powered by your blood, perhaps) to search out and destroy cells that have cancerous DNA/RNA, that destroy themselves automatically after all the cancer has been eliminated.

Cancer would be considered no more of a threat than the flu.

It might also work for colds, since nanobots would basically be antibodies on steroids.

Of course, nanotechnology is still primitive, so it will probably be a while before anything like this actually shows up. But I really think nanomedical research would yield some amazing breakthroughs.

EDIT: Hmm.. maybe it wouldn't be successful against colds.

Perhaps... when you get a cold, you go in to your pharmacist, have them test some blood to ID the strain, then they program some 'bots to target that cells carrying that strain, and inject them into your arm and the cold disappears within 24 hours.

And imagine, the things could clean out your arteries! You would never need to worry about getting killed by a big Mac ever again!

Of course, in order for this to work, the entire human genome would need to be mapped. But it would be revolutionary.

My cousin just died of cancer. cametall

LOL

im sick and tired of being sick and tired of getting colds, if they cant find a cure to cure the cold in at least 1 day how are they supposed to find cures for real sicknessesBoomshield

colds change itself all the time. they mutate. no not like zombies sir, they just change themselves a ltitle all the time.

so you cant really cure colds because you're technically fighting a diff thing everytime since it mutates.

LOL

Dmw09

Oh, yes, because a family member's death is just hilarious.

Way to be an inconsiderate jerk.

[QUOTE="Boomshield"][QUOTE="Mu5uk0"]

using that logic there is still no cure for small pox.

you fail.

tccavey2

i dont fail i pass all my courses

tssk tssk

what they teach you kids in schools these days...

Facts and more facts so that we have immense knowledge but are so unwise when we get in to the world that most fail at first.