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...been treated for cancer and survived, a number that is expected to swell to 10 million by the turn of the century. Three million have been cancer-free for at least five years, a time marker many cancer researchers consider an important milestone on the road to a complete "cure." Yet as a growing literature of articles and books by cancer survivors makes clear, the challenges these people face after the treatment is over are nearly as great as those posed by the disease...
...time when there were no effective treatments and a cancer diagnosis was almost invariably a death sentence. Even in the 1930s, less than 1 cancer victim in 5 was living after five years. Steady progress over the past few decades has changed that calculus dramatically. Today the cure rate for cancer approaches 50%, and for many forms of the disease, it is 90% or higher...
MEDICINE Scientists rapidly close in on a cure for cystic fibrosis...
...outlive her teens. But now, says Ramsey, "Brianna has an excellent chance of living into adulthood." In fact, although Ramsey and other clinicians are reluctant to raise false hopes, Brianna and thousands of other babies born with CF in the past few years may even live to see a cure. Says Ramsey: "In the next decade, we are going to see a revolution in treatment for this disease. We can really, truly think about a cure...
When laboratory rats had this reconstructed virus sprayed into their tiny lungs, they not only absorbed the foreign gene but actually sprouted, in their airways, the human protein that scientists believe will cure CF (Since the cells that line the lungs are shed periodically, this aerosol gene therapy will probably have to be repeated every two or three months.) While Crystal has yet to try the therapy in humans, he is supremely optimistic: "We now know it works in the test tube and in animals. I can guarantee that we can correct the defective protein in humans...