Cure for Cancer. Or any disease for that matter.

Iv been thinking for ages now, you know how when you get an injection against a disease, theres dead or almost dead cells in the shot, once your body kills, or absorbs the dead cells, it makes a blueprint of the disease/virus, which stops you ever getting that disease again, hence why you only get chicken pox once.

Well, why the hel dont they inject someone with dead or weakened cancer cells so their body generates an immunity?
if any sciencey people here can explain that id be grateful.

Should be in OT.

sorry, wrong forum, i posted both off topic and general by accident.

Lock this please.

I moved it

Ninja is right, you already have your own cells your body, no need to re-inject them unless you can make your body think they are not your own (and if it was able to do that, it's likely they would be different enough from normal cells that the uncontrolled growth wouldn't occur in the first place). Different types of cancer tend to be caused by completely different things, sometimes it's genetic, sometimes it's environmental stuff, sometimes we just have no clue or it's many things.

Well, there's obviously a reason why they dont do that....a reason we dont yet know, but good topic...

the only type of cancer I know of that you can get vaccinated for is cervical since it is actually caused by a virus, but in most cases, it wouldn't be so simple to prevent it.

Cancer's pretty much impossible to cure.  But who knows.

"Cancer's pretty much impossible to cure.  But who knows.
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"dreDREb13 said:

"Cancer's pretty much impossible to cure.  But who knows.
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yeah, hopefully that will change soon.
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Check out Radioimmunotherapy, that is a very effective treatment for certain blood cancers, and at MIT we are testing a way to make it target cancer cells.

"Vaccinations work by injecting a weakened form of the virus into the body causing the body to attack this weakened form and destroy it.The body "remembers" the viral components and so it is prepared to respond , by neutralizing the target agent before it can enter cells, and by recognizing and destroying infected cells before that agent can multiply to vast numbers.

 Cancer is uncontrolled proliferation of cells caused in most cases by abnormalities in the genetic makeup of the cell.  There is no immunity to cancer because it is not foreign cells, it is your own cells.
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"Vaccinations work by injecting a weakened form of the virus into the body causing the body to attack this weakened form and destroy it.The body "remembers" the viral components and so it is prepared to respond , by neutralizing the target agent before it can enter cells, and by recognizing and destroying infected cells before that agent can multiply to vast numbers.

 Cancer is uncontrolled proliferation of cells caused in most cases by abnormalities in the genetic makeup of the cell.  There is no immunity to cancer because it is not foreign cells, it is your own cells.
"

"Vaccinations work by injecting a weakened form of the virus into the body causing the body to attack this weakened form and destroy it.The body "remembers" the viral components and so it is prepared to respond , by neutralizing the target agent before it can enter cells, and by recognizing and destroying infected cells before that agent can multiply to vast numbers.

 Cancer is uncontrolled proliferation of cells caused in most cases by abnormalities in the genetic makeup of the cell.  There is no immunity to cancer because it is not foreign cells, it is your own cells.
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I really think in time we will find a cure for cancer.

"Well, why the hel dont they inject someone with dead or weakened cancer cells so their body generates an immunity?
if any sciencey people here can explain that id be grateful.
"

"Cancer's pretty much impossible to cure.  But who knows."

"dreDREb13 said:

"Cancer's pretty much impossible to cure.  But who knows."

Well, more people are surviving cancer than ever before. Medical treatments for cancer has grown substantially in past years, so one day I'm confident we'll be able to conquer it.
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Cancer is your own cells as DirtyNinja said and shots only work for foreign viruses.  I hope a cure is found and let's hope that it doesn't turn out like the cure in I Am Legend.

We won't find a "cure" for caner because there's different sorts of cancer caused by different things...

The closest thing to a cure we will have is by staying indoors away from the sun. I'm sure most people on GB are already one step ahead of skin cancer!

Because of the chance of them getting cancer.