Experimental Cancer Pros And Cons

Experimental Cancer Treatments

Cancer is a disease caused by divisions of uncontrolled, abnormal cells in parts of the body. An article from Britannica stated that," By 2015 the number of deaths from cancer had reached 8.8 million worldwide" (“Cancer”). With the number of new cancers being developed and more diagnoses of cancer beginning, experimental cancer treatments are a necessity. Experimental cancer treatments are a controversial topic in society today, which need to be continued until there is a cure found. Experimental cancer treatments can be broken into a few different parts; there is the history/background, pros and cons, causes, effects, and a solution.

People all over the world have been dealing with how to cure cancer for centuries.

Some people in the world are supportive of continuing the experimental treatments. Without having experiments with different treatments for cancer there would be no way for doctors and researchers to advance in finding a cure. These experiments have to have certain restrictions that their patients have to acquire to know if the experiment is working or not (CQ Researcher 753-76). In one article it was stated that, “It is easy to rationalize an off-trial treatment as a last hope, regardless of how radical, expensive or unproven it may be” (CQ Researcher 753-76). Even though that the majority of new treatments may be experimental and people don't know what type of outcome they might receive, it gives people hope for another chance at life. With advances in treatments, especially with how many experimental cancer treatments there are, people are starting to gain hope that just because they have cancer doesn't mean that it is the

Since these treatments are experiments, the outcome is a 100% guarantee that it will work. There was a statement in a journal that,“The information we do gain is fragmented, random and largely inaccessible. It tells us little about which subsets of patients benefit, and which will incur the morbidity, potential mortality and cost of a useless therapy” (CQ Researcher 753-76). These experiments are giving people false hope that it will cure them, but some of the people don’t understand that they might not get what they need to help them. The National Patient Advocate Foundation said, "Logging 6.8 million inquiries from patients in 2007, the foundation's analysis shows 70 percent of patient dilemmas involved cost." (“Is Cancer Community in Alignment”). Patients aren’t wanting to pay such a substantial cost knowing that the experiment might have zero effect on their health. Leaving people with an enormous amount of debt and false hope, are the downside to these experimental cancer