Where would you look specifically to find a cure for cancer?

Before I started looking for a cure for cancer, I would choose 1-2 types to focus in on because there are so many, they all could not be cured at once. I would want to understand what cancer is and how it starts, and how it can spread. Understanding cancer can be difficult because it affects each person differently. I would want to look at research on how cancer could affect different people. studies of cures and how effective or ineffective they were. I lost my mother to Colon Cancer when I was 13 years old and I watched how fast she deteriorated after being diagnosed with stage 3 cancer. She was given chemotherapy which cured the cancer for a while but then returned with a vengeance a month later. She didn’t stand a chance at how fast it spread and claimed her life. I also lost my grandmother in 2014 to lung cancer in the same exact way. It seems that chemotherapy can be the cure and also be the cause. I would want to do more research into how chemotherapy affects the body. I will use my own experience and go out and speak to many others with the same diagnosis and see what stage they are in, what treatment they have received and how it did or didn’t help.

How would you go about finding a cure (layout your detailed plan)?

First, I will choose a type of cancer that I want to know about such as Colon cancer. I would then ask myself what is it and how does it affect people? I would then do research on this type of cancer to answer these key questions. Colon cancer is a cancer that starts in the large intestine. Colon cancer usually affects older adults but can happen at any age. It typically begins as small benign clusters of cells or polyps that form inside of the colon. I would then find information on how it starts and what are the treatments that are used to help stop the spread of it and get rid of it. It is Unknown what causes most cancers, but colon cancer starts with healthy cell mutation. Many people don’t have symptoms in the beginning stages of colon cancer. One symptom could be Signs and symptoms of colon cancer include continuous change in your bowel habits like having diarrhea or constipation or changes in your stool consistency. I would then want to understand how the colon works and do research on the colon alone, healthy and unhealthy. Researchers are finding new ways to study the cancer like analyzing stool samples. I would want to also look closely at this as this may be help in finding a cure

. I would want to study the treatment methods new and old such as Immunotherapy, which researchers have seemed to find a class of drugs that targets how tumor cells avoid the immune system. Depending on the stage of cancer surgery to remove the cancer can be done if its in early stages. Chemotherapy and radiation are also offered to rid the cancer. Finally, I would research how the different kinds of treatment worked. Based off my experience and the research these treatments success rate varies case by case. For some it kills the cancer and it doesn’t return. For others it stops the cancer and then comes back spreading worse than before like in my mother’s case. In the end I would hope through doing a ton of research I would help find a solution to the problem and help figure out why cancer and its treatment can affect people so differently. With knowledge of all the trials and errors that have already been done I would hope to come out victorious with a cure.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/colon-cancer/symptoms-causes/syc-20353669

https://www.cancer.net/cancer-types/colorectal-cancer/latest-research

https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/cancer-articles/groundbreaking-study-may-change-treatment-approach-for-up-to-10-percent-of-colorectal-cancer-patients