If you could cure ONE disease tomorrow, which would it be and why?

[skuttle]

cancer

 

[PooohBear]

Cancer, because so many people are devastated by it

 

[monarchsfan16]

Cancer
A good friend lost her dad to brain cancer after years of battling it
Pretty much every year at least one member of my own family has been diagnosed or has relapsed.
My sister lost a close friend in kindergarten to brain cancer
These are just the close ties to my family. Virtually everyone I know has been affected. They need to find a cure

 

[Robinrs]

After losing my cat, my aunt, my cousin and my Mom to this beast, I have to say CANCER.

 

[antmaril]

Cancer.

 

[LisaNJ25]

Huntingtons Disease.. My cousin, her brother and her infant daughter all have it

 

[Laurajean1014]

Cancer. If not contained and made curable, it will affect our children and grandchildren and lower our immune systems to all other diseases. So, if cancer doesn't kill you, it will something else to.

If we cured cancer, then all the research put into curing cancer can take care of diabetes, MS, CP, heart disease, alzheimers, etc.

 

[Galahad]

Doh! Of course! Brain fart!

Maybe we need a foundation to push for a cure for Brain farts. I can see the telethons now.

 

[Minniespal]

Cancer the diabetes.

 

[Boater]

Maybe we need a foundation to push for a cure for Brain farts. I can see the telethons now.

And after that they can cure "I can't taste my beer" syndrome.

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

AIDS. Without any hesitation or second thoughts.

Many of my friends are living with this disease, others have lost their battle. The meds are expensive and horribly toxic, and might stop working any minute. AIDS is spreading more rapidly every year, the strains are mutating so they are resistant to the available medications, and funding is being cut and cut. When I tell people I do volunteer work with AIDS charities they sort of smile and nod - the level of ignorance is appalling.

The devastation in Africa is unparallelled. The rates of infection in other countries - India, Thailand, China are all rising. And here in the good old USA for every step forward we take 2 steps back. We get infection rates under control in one demographic and they skyrocket somewhere else. Programs have been slashed until they are nearly non-existant.

There is no treatment to "cure" AIDS, no surgery, nothing. You take the meds and hope for the best. I guess having an undetectable viral load is similar to remission, but you still have AIDS and can still transmit it to others.

So absolutely, without question, I would cure AIDS.

 

[olena]

I would love a treatment that eradicates HIV virus from the body. Hopefully one day.

 

[JennyMominRI]

AIDS. Without any hesitation or second thoughts.

Many of my friends are living with this disease, others have lost their battle. The meds are expensive and horribly toxic, and might stop working any minute. AIDS is spreading more rapidly every year, the strains are mutating so they are resistant to the available medications, and funding is being cut and cut. When I tell people I do volunteer work with AIDS charities they sort of smile and nod - the level of ignorance is appalling.

The devastation in Africa is unparallelled. The rates of infection in other countries - India, Thailand, China are all rising. And here in the good old USA for every step forward we take 2 steps back. We get infection rates under control in one demographic and they skyrocket somewhere else. Programs have been slashed until they are nearly non-existant.

There is no treatment to "cure" AIDS, no surgery, nothing. You take the meds and hope for the best. I guess having an undetectable viral load is similar to remission, but you still have AIDS and can still transmit it to others.

So absolutely, without question, I would cure AIDS.

As to the undetectable viral load..Yes,it means there is no virus in the bloodstream..It's still stiing therein your internal organs like the heart and brain..Its probably why,even though my viral load was undetectable,I went into heart failure in 2000 and had a stroke in 2003. The virus went after my heart and brain..As to programs being cut. There is an illusion out there that aids is next to cured and that AIDS gets so much funding .The fact is that AIDS Projects all over the country have closed.. I was part of the San Diego AIDS Project and up until 1997 I had a home health are nurse that came out once a month to check on me,in between doctors visits...They cut off the funding and she stopped coming. I'm pretty sure that partiular AIDS project shut down..ANd lots of people just plain don't care.There is still that attitude of*You brought it on yourself* Or that it can't happen to me . While people know that Cancer could happen at any time,most people think AIDS will never effect them. AIDS is not cured. AIDS is not under control. AIDS is not a gay disease. 49% of PWA"S are now women. AIDS is spreading rapidly in all countries and people are still dying from it every single day

 

[Chipperdini]

Maybe we need a foundation to push for a cure for Brain farts. I can see the telethons now.

I was thinking terminal stupidity.



Or absentmindedness.
Or foot-in-mouth syndrome.
Or long-windedness.
Or...




Selfish of me, I know.

 

[Alice28]

Cancer or alzheimers....alzheimers is such a degrading way to spend the last years of one's life.

 

[Claire L]

I would say cancer first as it is a biggie and took my darling Grandfather but also MS as it took my father, aged 38, and I never got to know him properly.

Claire

 

[TigerCheer2009]

Mental: Alzheimers/dementia...there is nothing you can do about it...it's very hard to watch. My grandpa is slowly dying from it. They go from someone who's loved you and cared for you and gave you cheese sticks when you came to his house or at least known who you are everytime you saw them...to someone who doesn't know where they are/who they are/where they're going. Even simple facts and day to day things (like the fact that my grandma has been...what's a good way to say this, passed on? for maybe fourteen years now doesn't stop him from insisting that he has to go pick her up nearly every day)

Physical: Breast cancer. My mom and quite a few adult friends/teachers of mine are survivors and there are some great people who didn't quite finish their journey.

 

[robertsmom]

I would cure juvenile diabetes. My reason for this is purely selfish, because my son has suffered with this disease since the age of two, and I would do anything to make his life better (as any parent would).

 

[robertsmom]

Diabetes, either Type I or Type II. There are some folks that can't control their diabetes no matter what they do...called "brittle" diabetics. Diabetes is the basis for so many other diseases, such as heart disease, kidney failure, blindness, strokes. It is so hard to get people to take diabetes seriously because it is sort of an "invisible" disease...you don't see the woman with the mastectomy bald from chemo, you don't see the thin, end-stage cancer patient, or hear of the young man cut down inhis prime with a massive heart attack. You usually hear of the 75 year old guy who lost a leg...oh well...most people's attitude is "I'll worry about it when I am 75". Many people who have had strokes, heart attacks, kidney failure and a host of other diseases have diabetes in their history, and believe me, it is affecting them for contracting these other problems.

We tend to put our support towards diabetes research and education. The American Diabetes Association doesn't reeceive anywhere near the amount of $$ that the American Cancer Society does.

Disney Doll, I would hug you for this post if I could. Sooooo many people think that diabetes is not that serious because there is insulin. What some people don't realize is that insulin is a treatment NOT a cure. My son nearly died from this disease at the age of 2 - he was diagnosed in the ER after he went down for a nap one day and didn't wake up because he slipped into a coma with a blood sugar level of 1287 (a number that will forever be burned into my brain). I lost my father to cancer, and I miss him every day, but I would still cure diabetes if I could.

 

[2BigKIdz]

I would say cancer, but since there are so many others curing cancer I'll pick the disease that has taken 2 of my aunts, pulmonary fibrosis. It is a fairly rare disease that causes the tissue in your lungs to harden, basically turns your lungs to stone and there is really no treatment for this disease, just treat you with steroids. The only "cure" is a lung transplant.