• Question: do you think there will ever be a cure for cancer

    Asked by donlikehayden to Mike on 21 Jun 2011.
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      Mike Dodd answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      There is some amazing working using antibodies to target cancers. The main problem with cancer is that it is your own cells attacking your body. Antibodies are normally produced by the immune system to kill off attacking viruses or infections. But they can’t detect cancers. So scientists are trying to grow antibodies outside of the body, that can detect cancer cells. If this works, then the your own body will kill off the cancer and will “cure” cancer. I think that in 10 years, that some cancers will be cured.

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