# Cancer

- kind: problem
- status: partial
- year: 1971

**Statement.** Can cancer be reliably prevented, detected early and cured?

Cancer is hundreds of diseases. Some once-fatal cancers are now usually curable, including childhood leukemia, testicular cancer and Hodgkin lymphoma. Immunotherapy and CAR-T therapy produce durable remissions in some patients. Metastatic solid tumors remain mostly incurable.

## Sources

- [Wikipedia: Cancer research](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_research)

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