Originally Posted by gijoe

Hazmat, as much as i want cancer to be cured, as i have lost 4 family members to it.... To me, curing cancer is a giant money scam. Im sure there are a few companies that are trying to find the cure for it.

BUT, if you think about it like this...say someone finds a cure for cancer that comes in a pill form. Just one pill, and it costs say, 150 grand. So one person pays 150 grand and the cancer is gone, just like that.

Although, now there are a ton of operations and procedures that help tame cancer. Im not a doctor so i don't know all the names for those procedures but things like radiation treatment and stuff. I also don't know the prices, but when my Aunt had to do all of these it cost ALOT! She had about 3 years of on going procedures and the medical bills piled up insane.

Lets just say that a few treatments to kill cancer cells is 10000 dollars, and that goes on over a period of say 3 years. And if that person needed that procedure 10 a year, thats 100000 and if that happens 3 times, that's 300,000 dollars right there off of one person.

And if there are hundreds of thousands of people in this world that have cancer, then the hospitals, doctors, the creators of radiation treatment and so on or just ROLLING in the cash because they are getting rich off of others suffering.

Now of course my numbers may not be correct, but im sure that you all get the point. I really really want cancer to be cured as it runs in my family and i am at risk, but i dont see a cure coming soon...As pessimistic as that sounds. Thats just my opinion, its a little out there i know..

I see you went the other direction with the message header. It was the bait on the line in advertising to get you to read the post. I dont think you did. But regardless Cancer is a disease and diseases can be cured. Even if it at the bio-molecular level and requires some type of genome manipulation.

If you actually go to Stanford's site you can see that they are using shared CPU power to assist with folding genome coding to attempt to locate cures for infectious diseases.

I too have recently lost both sets of grandparents to cancer and those methods to abate the cancer also caused other issues which lead to their painful and prolonged deaths. Blasting cancerous cells with radiation isnt a cure for anything IMO and only raises other issues as witnessed by myself personal and very recently.

Go back take a look at what Stanford is working on with the Folding. And if you like I can change the message title so as not to give this a "new age hippie" vibe.