Why don't we have a cure for cancer yet?

They make millions off of it and scientists @RamessesII

I have no bong @RamessesII

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow If no profit could be made, do you think we'd have a cure? Or is there a cure already, but it's not being used since it'll come at a loss?

@BeefySenpie Since our current system rewards sociopaths in business and given the behavior of some in the past (jacking the price of epi pens for no other reason then they know they can make people pay it or they could die) I would be inclined to believe it is the latter. Or possibly they didn't even bother "wasting" money trying to research a cure. That is why many of those foundations exist because big pharma simply doesn't care .

@BeefySenpie The person who made me realize how broken the research funding side of this was believe it or not Christopher Reeves. I saw him speak and he was very disillusioned and scathing in his assessment of the state of things. Basically he was putting up his own money because spinal cord research was not profitable enough for anyone else to give a damn.

@midnightsun Cancer is genetic, you would have to cure the DNA. Carcinogens only activate the cancer, they are not the source. Cancer is a miss-coding in the DNA If there were to be a cure for cancer it would also be the key to all manner of genetic experimentation attempting to improve or enhance the natural human, but resulting in horrible mutations about 98% of the time, including cancers.
It is kind of like finding a cure for stupid. (Which is also commonly genetic).

@Anonymartyr only some cancers are genetic..

@Anonymartyr it's not genetic

@MarmeeMarch It’s not that easy.

@thisusernameisgarbage all i got

@MarmeeMarch treatments are not a cure by a long shot. its not even close. And Chemotherapy is a horrible thing to have to do even once.