Cancer is 'smarter' than science.
"We truly grossly underestimated the cleverness of cancer," says Ralph deVere White, director of the U.C. Davis Cancer Center.
"Cancer is hundreds if not thousands of different diseases," says David Weinstock, of Harvard's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. "Saying, 'Why don't we have a cure to cancer,' is like saying, 'Why don't we have a cure to infection.'"
Killing cancer cells involves killing healthy cells. Chemo-therapy is really the use of cell-killing toxic chemicals applied in a 'shotgun' approach. Sorta like shooting a housefly with howitzer cannon.
The final solution is still decades off. And will require the kind of genetic engineering and gene therapy that may also lead to elimination of disease prenatally. Cure cancer before a person is even born!
