Has cancer been cured?
These cancer cure conspiracy hteories are a game played by people who haven’t had, studied or been close to cancer. The problem with finding a ‘cure for cancer’ is that cancer is not one disease, but an umbrella term for over 200 different diseases. There’ll never be a Eureka! moment when a single substance or procedure is discovered that will reverse all types of cancer; different cancers are caused by different things, so no one strategy can prevent them all, and different cancers respond to different treatments so no one treatment can cure them all. There will never be a magic bullet that cures all cancer. But while there’s not a guaranteed cure for any cancer, some cancers are cured. For example, 70% of children with cancer are cured. It’s 30% too few, but it’s a far cry from ‘no cure’. Testicular cancer, Hodgkin’s disease, and many cases of leukaemia can all be cured in adults with chemotherapy, most skin cancers are cured with surgery, and many cases of thyroid cancer and cancer
