I can’t say for sure from the question whether it refers to people who have beaten cancer forever, or whether the question is whether we will ever be able to get rid of cancer as a disease forever.
Of course, many people managed to achieve a long-term remission or get rid of cancer. The word “treatment” is questionable and means different things to different people. Most oncologists prefer to use the term cancer free for a certain number of years.
The gold standard is a five-year survival rate, but it doesn’t really matter if the cancer comes back after six years. But there is constant progress in the understanding and treatment of cancer, and many leukemias, lymphomas, breast cancer, skin cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer and others can indeed be eliminated and therefore cured or at least controlled so that they considered chronic. illness.
One of the most important advances in oncology has been new and improved diagnostic and imaging devices. The trick to fighting cancer is getting it early, which is why mammograms, Pap smears, colonoscopies, and other diagnostic tests are so important.