What do cancer research centers do exactly?millions of dollars are spent on cancer research yet there have been no major breakthrough yet, i know that cancer is caused by a mutation in the p53 that causes cell growth to go out of control, but how can research help that?
Answer by siriusb23
Cancer Research centers generally work to find ways to treat cancer, not prevent cancer. Preventing cancer is not very profitable.
Answer by hunter d
Well, if what U say is true, then the Cervical Cancer vaccine must b a dream! Apparently, there have been major breakthroughs in cancer research for that to b in place! And it was all thanks to an Aussie doc (she won the Nobel Peace Prize for it ).
Answer by AKA Inverse Mushroom Cloud
Perhaps you need to do some research before asking questions based on erroneous assumptions.
Answer by Spreedog
Agree with "Inverse Mushroom Cloud" and "hunter d"
There have been many advances for the hundreds of different diseases which are included in the general term "cancers."
Malignant diseases are far more complicated than just the p53 mutation.
Over a hundred different mutations in genes have been identified in recent years thanks to cancer research.
Some of these are being targeted specifically with an increasing number of new monoclonal antibody treatments.
There are signicant advances almost every month in the oncology medical journals.
Which of the hundreds of different cancers are you asking about?
If you are asking about advanced pancreatic carcinomas, you are correct that no major treatment breakthroughs have occurred - yet.
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