Watching the campaigns for Cancer Research UK on my TV gave me a bad feeling. "Together, we will beat cancer". If this were to happen, what would the impact be on the world?

For a moment, imagine that this dream came true through many billions spent into research. There is no longer cancer of any form existing in the world, due to this miracle of a discovery.

There could be a huge number of changes, from social issues such as overpopulation (in 2007, cancer was the cause of 13% of all deaths), to economic impacts (if there was no lung cancer, how many more people would smoke?)

Is it worth spending money on curing cancer if the end result could be so perilous? 

On the other hand, as humans some feel that we have a duty to try and prolong our lifespans as much as possible. Maybe we could find ways to control the impacts of a cancerless world in the future. 

How do you feel about this issue?

I think living forever sounds very selfish, and very sad. It is better to just accept that people will die, and just be happy we ever had a life in the first place.

I also believe we will never see an end to life threatening issues. For every instance we stop, another will replace it. Nature will always be ahead. No matter how hard we try, perfection is unachievable.

then we could work on having a world without aids. theres always something.

Cancer can't be beat. Why. Simple, Live is cancer.
Cancer occurs when genetich flaws trigger a cell to go for non-stop growth. The older you get, the more your dna degrades and any possibility for cancer rises. It's just a matter of time.
Cancer is the way live dies.

The best - ever - solution will be to take a pill each day which slows down the cancer.

these non-related posts are so annoying.
This is a gaming website.
I don't get the recurring posts on VG here that wanna talk about life and death and politics and race and hunger and wars and bloodshed and sickness and basically the antithesis of everything that gaming is about;
the escape and momentary suspension from all of life's ugliness.
You wanna talk about cancer man go on MSNBC or something, or some other website that's more appropriate to life's existential bull@#*@.
Why here?... some kind of pathological, misguided need to enlighten people about the life's tragedies. Yeah, I get it, there's cancer. Thanks for reminding me.
There's also Halo and Skyrim and Battlefield and IloMilo and Little Big Planet, Mario, Link, the expanse of the individual's mind and imagination beyond what life can only sometime offer through cruelty.
Gaming.
Why don't you talk about that?

Those cons don't outweight the pros of beating Cancer. Some very innocent lovely good human beings suffer and die from Cancer leaving behind children, anything to stop that is a good thing in my eyes. Overpopulation isn't devasting, we'd just have to learn to adapt. and while I hate the smell of smoke, if it caused no harm, and people taking it up rose substantially, at least the gov could make lots of money off of it.

You do realize that you are in the off-topic section of the forum right? This place is specifically for non-gaming related topics. And just because people on this site all enjoy videogames doesn't mean that is all they are interested. We have a very broad community of posters from all over the world that have unique things they want to talk about. 

Also you could just ignore these posts. The majority of topics here do have to do with gaming.

Funny thing is that they are trying to beat cancer the wrong way. They are trying to make healthy living into a prescription pill that will probably have many side effects (including probably cancer). Prescription medication is making the human population weaker and more susceptible to disease (or at least making viruses drug resistant). A world without cancer would be a world without humans. Humans are the real cancer on the planet.

Also, the ways they fight cancer in USA are downright pathetic.  Anyone who undergoes chemotherapy might as well sign their death certificate.  Chemotherapy has to be one of the worst "inventions" for mankind.  Instead of trying to correct the lifestyle changes that brought the person to cancer they go ahead and destroy all cells (healthy and cancerous) in your body.  You know what? Most of the times it will probably come back because they really didn't even get rid of the cancer.  Instead of pumping your body full of micro-nutrients from veggies and fruit they point a death ray at you and expect you to live.  Medical industry is a pure joke.

If I recall correctly, there have been extremely simple and wonderful cures for cancer that had been found a few years ago, but the medical field completely disregards them because they're unable to make any money off of those methods.

I could be totally off here, but I remember reading something about it.

Here's what I got from a quick google search: http://nutritiondietnews.com/canadian-researchers-obtain-a-simple-cure-for-cancer-but-major-pharmaceutical-corporations-arent-interested/853757/

WRONG!

I was diagnosed with leukemia in an advanced stage on June 16th, 1988 and given the standard course of chemo at the time, nasty shit, followed by a bone marrow transplant and I'm still here to talk about it.

As long as there is life, there is hope.