• Question: why don't you do more useful things like stopping cancer rather than just researching it ?

    Asked by abrahams1 to Jo on 15 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Joanna Watson

      Joanna Watson answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      When we find out something from our research that can prevent cancer we write about it so that lots of people can find out. Then if people know about it they might be able to change their behaviour to reduce their risk of getting cancer.

      If no-one did cancer research we might never have found out that smoking causes cancer and so more people might smoke and more people might get cancer because of smoking.

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  • Photo: Mariam

    Mariam commented on :

    Hi abrahams1!
    I’d like to add to Jo’s answer by saying that I research cancer to try and find out new things about it, so that we can develop new treatments. Research in this sense doesn’t mean looking things up on the internet to find out what’s known, it means doing experiments to find out completely new things that weren’t known before. So we are trying to stop cancer by doing research!