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The New Age Of Cancer Treatment In 1971 President Richard Nixon declared a war on cancer and predicted a cure in the near future. As of today there is no complete cure but many advances have been made due to the completion of the human genome sequence. Because of this advancement, scientists have learned cancer forms from a group of genes created by a certain combination of mutations. Since cancer isn’t produced by a single consistent defect, but a number of on and off switch combinations in our 33,000 genes, researchers have never succeeded in finding a complete cure all solution. Finally our understanding of this disease is making progress. Survival rates are slowly climbing with the advancements of technologies. The prediction is, in ten years, suffering and death due to cancer will be eliminated. Here are the current treatments for cancer: Chemotherapy: A current treatment for cancer involves chemotherapy. Ch