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...technology will never be a cure-all. Accidents and plagues won't disappear. The AIDS epidemic is so entrenched in Africa and parts of Asia that it could overshadow much of the 21st century. Nor will everyone be able to afford the latest treatments for cancer or Alzheimer's disease. For millions of people alive today, though, the ability to monitor their health more closely and start treatments at the earliest stages of disease means that many may live long enough to enjoy the blessings of the 22nd century...
...problem is, the "cure" for cancer is not going to show up anytime soon--almost certainly not in the next decade. In fact, there may never be a single cure, one drug that will bring every cancer patient back to glowing good health, in part because every type of cancer, from brain to breast to bowel, is different...
...strong--and suppressing them before they have a chance to progress to malignancy. Beyond that, nobody can make predictions with any accuracy, but there is reason to hope that within the next 25 years new drugs will be able to ameliorate most if not all cancers and maybe even cure some of them. "We are in the midst of a complete and profound change in our development of cancer treatments," says Richard Klausner, director of the National Cancer Institute. The main upshot of this change is the sheer number of drugs in development--so many that they threaten to swamp...
...probably won't cure all forms of cancer in the 21st century. But we may very well learn to live with them...
...cure for AIDS by the year 2025 is not inconceivable. But constrained by economic reality, these therapeutic advances will have only limited benefit outside the U.S. and Western Europe...