Cancer to become world's top killer by 2010

Here is another recent breakthrough in fighting cancer: http://current.com/items/89615771/revolutionary_device_could_filter_cancer_cells...

jack you beat me to it.

For those who are too lazy to click the link, the cure is right in front of your noses- its called cannabis.

It possesses chemical compounds called cannabinoids, and research is showing, growing, and steadily supporting the fact that these cannabinoids possess cancer fighting/killing ability.

And no, not just by getting high- doesn't work that way. Concentrations of cannabinoids (via- Phoenix tears, etc), affect cannabinoid receptors all over your body and promote healthy cell growth (i.e. killing of bad mutating cellls- cancer.)

I'm a three time cancer survivor! The increase in this ugly disease must be traced to the pollution in our enviorment and the chemicals in everything we eat and the air we breath! sure some of these cases can be traced to lifestyle habits but I believe that the pollution in our envioment and the chemicals in our food and in the air also have a lot to do with it as well and unless we change now the human race is surely doomed!

if only drug companies spent more of their R&D dollars for coming up with a cure rather than making drugs to help people live with cancer. The latter is obviously more profitable for the drug companies but is there no price for life? The cancer business is very profitable for Drug Companies and it is not in their financial interest to find a cure.

I survived one of the worst kinds and i find it inexcusable that our government spends more in a month in Iraq than we have in 50 years on cancer research.

Although cancer is a very serious disease, I don't believe it will be the top killer. Right now infectious diseases such as MDR-TB, HIV/AIDS, malaria, and even simple colds in developing nations are more serious in nature in that those people who are infected do not have adequate access to healthcare. More people die from these diseases than cancer.

I currently work in cancer research and in my opinion it is considered a "rich" disease commonly diagnosed in developed nations. It is only a fraction of deaths compared to the more infectious ones.

I saw my dad die from Lung and brain Cancer and he never smoked go figure.. I think everyone is born with the Cancer Gene in them and something happens later in life

I am only 22 and have had cancer twice... the first was when I was only 17, with breast, ovarian, and cervical cancer. I found out just last Thursday that my surgery to get rid of my second bout with cervical cancer was (LUCKILY) a success.

I'm so grateful to be alive... I am lucky to be stubbornly optimistic, and to have such wonderful family and friends, but hardly anyone thanks their DOCTORS, who sometimes actually DO care! Mine did, and I have my life to thank her for...

WE NEED TO REALIZE THAT OUR BODIES ARE TEMPLES, AND SHOULD BE TREATED AS SUCH!!!

i guess people don't realize that all you have to do is eat a raw plant based diet and you will never get cancer. it's impossible. Cancer cells cannot survive in an alkaline environment.

I know many more people who have had cancer than have had heart disease. Heart disease is focused on only one part of the body, so it was just a matter of time before cancer--- which has many forms--- became public enemy number one.

Cancer and heart disease will definitely be the problems to tackle for the next few decades. Promising developments are taking place on both fronts almost every day. For example, a new way to study cancer has made news today:
http://current.com/items/89608670/cancer_cells_illuminated_in_tracking_breakthro...

Very interesting. I wonder who the top suppliers of tobacco are in India and China (suppose I could Google that one). Yeah, we've really cracked the whip on big tobacco in the states. But we seem to be getting fatter and even more lazy so maybe we need to put the sexy back in cigs; people smoking their weight down, peeling their asses out of their cubicle chair to walk outside for a smoke break .... ?

Cancer is a scary thing.

It is not really something you can prevent on your own. There is a bit of luck involved.

Some of the healthiest people I have known have, have had, or have died from cancer.

I disagree with this story. I think with the combination of genetics and lack of proper diets, heart disease will remain the #1 killer for a while.

We just had a report on ABC discussing the great strides we are finally making in America. It is no longer "cool" to smoke; Businesses for the most part ground you to some little unplesant place and best of all...you can go out to dinner and not have someone make you sick by blowing smoke in your face!

Seriously, the decline especially in lung and breast cancers are down in the USA. The rest of the developing countries are probably now where we were back in te40s 50s. They need constant education and cultural change from within.

Well gee, let's just continue to spew out that coal burning toxification and consuming test tube food we know nothing about, and voting down anyone here who brings up the important topics that give truthful information about where this world is heading and how to fight it as opposed to just cutting and pasting about it.

I really hate that word, Cancer.