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Asked by beckiee100 to Emily on 12 Jun 2011.
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Emily Robinson answered on 12 Jun 2011:
Hi beckiee100,
Cancer is definitely an area in which a lot of research is being done to try and prevent, manage or ‘cure’ cancer and I am hopeful that someday cancer will no longer be as life threatening. I recently got sponsored to run a half marathon in aid of Cancer Research as I think it is such a good cause (and I am definitely not a runner!). But my research is not related to cancer at the minute. I research how to reduce the brain damage caused by a stroke and how it could be the body’s own immune system that we need to target.
I do have a friend doing a PhD researching a type of brain tumour called Glioblastoma, which is a very aggressive type of cancer. I think they are trying to use stemcells in their research, although this is not my area and it would be only at the first stages of being investigated.
Do you think that in the future scientists will cure cancer?
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beckiee100 commented on :
im not sure to be honest because i have a auntie who had brest cancer and she recently just got over it.. it was a really hard situation for the family but finally the news was cut and the family is back to normal! i think that cancer is a horrible thing and would never be cured because life is hard. you just have to make the most of it 🙂
Kate commented on :
You know beckiee, my husband has had cancer two times: he had a neuroblastoma when he was one, and then he got leukemia when he was 17. Talk about lightning striking twice! But he recovered each time and moved on. And now, he does cancer research himself, funded by the same organization that funded his therapies when he was a cancer patient!
So maybe your experience with your auntie will inspire you to study cancer, just like it did my husband :).
beckiee100 commented on :
yeah i think it would..
so how do you think cancer started?..