How long is goin take before we know the real cause of cancer?

What is the best research so far on this question? in the future will cancer be easier to heal like common cold or will be a biggest killer as more and more people are being diagnosed with cancer as the enviroment is being polluted.

How long is goin take before we know the real cause of cancer?
Cancer isn't a modern disease, it's been around as long as people have and probably before, predating present-day pollution.





The problem with finding a cure is that cancer is not a single disease, it's an umbrella term for over 200 different diseases. The difficulty with finding a cure is that different cancers are caused by different things, so no one strategy can prevent them They all respond to different treatments so no one treatment can cure them, so there isn't a magic bullet that cures all cancers and there never will be.





But quite a few cancers can already be cured: seven out of ten children are cured of cancer; testicular cancer; Hodgkin's disease, and many cases of leukaemia can all be cured in adults with chemotherapy, most skin cancers are cured with surgery and many cases of thyroid cancer and cancer of the larynx are cured with radiotherapy.





Many other types of cancer are also cured if they are found early enough - . 75% of breast cancers found at stage one for example.





It's true that we're still pretty much in the dark as to the causes of most cancers. But there's dedicated (and underfunded) hard work going on to solve the mysteries of cancer and find effective treatments and, hopefully, cures.





Nobody can say how long all this might take.
Reply:It is impossible to answer that question as you cannot measure how much time it will take us to learn something we do not know. It is also more than a little ironic that you should compare cancer with the common cold since we do not have a cure for that either.





It is also impossible to know what the best research is to answer your question. Most cancer research is looking at understanding a particular cancer rather than all of them at once. You have to walk before you can run.





And no one has a way of predicting the future. It may become the biggest killer we know or maybe something else will come along that is worse.