• Question: how cloes are you to curing canncer

    Asked by hued532germ89 on 17 Dec 2025. This question was also asked by gray532pact4, cepe532aura55, been532daut33.
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      Hayley Pincott answered on 17 Dec 2025:

      Hi,

      I don’t work in research, but I work in a biomedical science lab in a hospital which makes use of all the amazing hard work researchers carry out.

      I do know though, that because there are many types of cancer, this makes it very difficult to find a single cure. Although successful treatment rates are increasing, so more people are surviving cancer after having a diagnosis. The best we can do as individuals is to reduce our risk by eating healthily, getting plenty of rest, no smoking or drinking and get vaccinated.

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      Martin McCoustra answered on 18 Mar 2026:

      I don’t work in any areas relevant to cancer treatment!

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      Amrit Phull answered on 19 Mar 2026:

      I don’t work in a relevant area, but I know that researchers are working their hardest to come up with new ways to treat it, and new ways to detect it earlier!

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      Melissa Upjohn answered on 24 Mar 2026:

      I don’t work in cancer research but there are several different types of cancer which vets working in practice see in animals. Because every type of cancer is different, in terms of the way the cells work and the ways in which we treat it varies (sometimes we use medicine, sometimes we need to do surgery, but overall we generally don’t have the full range of treatments available that may be used for people) our progress towards curing cancer depends on the individual cancer. Some types of cancer are similar in both people and animals, so in those cases, both vets and doctors can learn from the same research, which is great news, so we need to make sure that money is available to research those cancers to benefit the biggest possible range of patients.

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