Cancer.

This has been an issue for quite some time now.  To summerize what cancer is, it is basically, to my understanding, cells that are growing out of control (prone to more mutations).  There are different categories of cancer, and typically cancer was generalized with death for there was nothing that could be used to treat it once it affected a person.  But due to modern medicine, treatments have been developed, but may prove not to be the best alternatives.  The current treatment of cancerous cells is to remove tumors from the body before they become a later-stage cancer (which are typically malignant).  Simple enough: if you cut the fuse before it touches the stick of dynamite, you have less of a chance of the explosive going off.  However, these plans are not fool-proof, and there could be multiple areas where there is a fantastic opportunity for cancer to grow, to which it may.  This is where route two is taken: chemotherapy.  This is the purposeful injection of a chemical into the body to target cells that are growing to rapidly, which is a pretty bad, but effective, way to "cure" cancer.  In doing so, not only are you killing off the rapidly dividing cells that comprise tumors/cancerous cells, you are also killing off the cells within your body that rely on rapid division (i.e. epithelial cells, bone cells, etc.).

Wow, I must break here since this is quite an old post that I hadn't published, nor finished for that matter.  Let me continue then.

Chemotherapy is dangerous since the same cells you want to kill may not be killed, instead you may kill off your Adult stem cells (i.e. bone marrow cells) which are needed to produce more cells.  This is one of the reason why it is so dangerous, since the very treatment used to help a person may in fact put them in a worse state than they had started with.  There are various methods to indicate the stage of the cancer, and where it is spread to (for example, thyroid cancer is very specific since iodine is needed to regulate thyroid hormone, so an iodine isotope will specifically target and treat the thyroid).   To address this, more research must be done on the mechanism for cell division, how is cell division different in stem cells opposed to somatic cells, how are stem cell divisions different from the method at which cancerous cells divide, are there specific mechanisms that can be deduced amongst the different forms of cancer, etc.  There must be something that we, as people, can do to solve this problem.  Granted, cancer is one of nature's mechanisms to prevent the possibility of overpopulation for the human species, however. humans are emotional beings.  If there is a possibility for us to save our loved ones, even if it is a slight chance, we have the capacity to rationally choose the correct pathway for both the family and the afflicted: but some do not.  Truthfully, not much is known about cancer, nor is a treatment viable for all forms.  However, in the coming days, there may be a person who will discover such a treatment, leading us a step closer towards advancing our future in the medical field.

-JuzoInspired