There Will Never Be a Cure for Cancer

Synopsis: There will never be a single cure for all cancers – and that's good news for biotech investors. Us vs. Cancer By Alex Daley and Doug Hornig That sounds like a pretty gloomy forecast, doesn't it? It isn't, though, not really. Because the key word in that sentence is "a." There won't be a cure for cancer. But there will be cures for cancers. In common parlance, "cancer" is understood as any kind of abnormal cell proliferation over which the body fails to exert control. But this means it is haphazardly applied to over 200 different diseases with some basic similarities – cancerous cells all grow, invade, erode, and destroy surrounding normal tissue –but which have a wide variety of causes, symptoms, and appearances, and which each require distinct care and treatment. Thus, when fighting cancer at the biological level, you have to treat nearly every cancer differently… and very carefully. (In professional circles ...