CANCER COULD BE 'UNDER CONTROL' BY 2025,SAYS RESEARCHER
London, Nov 21 (ANI):Cancer, which is responsible for numerous deaths around the world, could become a 'controllable' disease rather than a killer within 20 years, according to a leading cancer expert. Patients will be treated as if they have a long-term illness such as diabetes, said Karol Sikora, professor of cancer medicine at Imperial College London and Hammersmith Hospital. He said it may soon be possible to identify those at risk of developing cancer, pick up the very early stages of the disease and control it long- term. He added that the treatment of the illness is changing so rapidly that by 2015 everyone will be able to have a blood test to establish their risk of developing it. It would reveal a person's genetic background and calculations could be carried out to determine the likelihood of having cancer within their lifetime. But he warned that the cost to health services around the world would be huge. "The prediction is that by 2025 we will be talking about controlling cancer in the long term, not eradicating it but making cancer like diabetes. But the cost will be high," Sikora was quoted by the Daily Mail, as saying. Scientists today have to concentrate on diagnosing cancer and treatments to save lives, which will probably be delivered in the near future by large gloabl organisations running "cancer hotels," he added. But the ultimate goal was to prevent the disease, largely by encouraging healthier lifestyles based on and individuals 'personalised' risk and better screening. At present, there was no simple blood test to look at the 50 to 60 genes that could increase a person's lifetime risk of cancer. But in ten years this may be possible. However, cancer will still pose a significant health problem for most alive today, he added. "We will not eliminate cancer in the next 25 years or the next 50 years. "That is not possible. Even if everyone stopped smoking tomorrow there would still be cancer in 2025," he said. Meanwhile another study concluded that an unhealthy lifestyle is also responsible foe cancer. Smoking and a combination of unhealthy diet, obesity and inactivity increase the risk of the disease. (ANI) source: http://health.allrefer.com/news/index.php?ID=8286 ================================================================== Baca ratusan artikel lainnya di InfoScience-Med. InfoScience-Med - info terkini dunia medis dan kesehatan, beredar setiap awal bulan, dikemas dalam CD-ROM, lengkap dengan database yang memudahkan Anda untuk membacanya. Harga setiap edisi Rp 100.000,- Namun selama perkenalan, dapatkan edisi Oktober 2005 seharga Rp 50.000,- ; atau dengan hanya Rp 100,000,- Anda akan dapatkan dua edisi sekaligus: Oktober dan November 2005 (sudah termasuk CD Verbatim dan bebas biaya kirim). CD akan dikirim awal Desember sekitar 1-8 Desember 2005. Pesan atau berlangganan ? Segera hubungi kami dengan cara: - kirim email ke [EMAIL PROTECTED] (infoplusmail at yahoo dot com), atau - telepon ke 031-8012180 (Senin-Sabtu pukul 13.00-21.00), atau - kirim sms ke 0818300412, ketik "nama"_"alamatlengkap"_"edisiyangdipilih" (edisi yang dipilih : ketik "OKT" jika pesan edisi Oktober saja, ketik "OKT&NOV" jika pesan dua edisi) Pembayaran melalui transfer via bank. Hanya Infoscience-Med yang setiap bulan selalu memberikan info up-to- date dunia medis dan kesehatan. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Help save the life of a child. Support St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. http://us.click.yahoo.com/JrD4fD/lbOLAA/xGEGAA/asSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Dapatkan informasi kesehatan gratis Mailing List Dokter Indonesia http://www.mldi.or.id Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dokter/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
