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road to cancer control goes through leukemia research E.J. Freireich md dsc (hon) Lay people, particularly people in the press, frequently ask the question “When will we cure cancer?” I believe that we will never cure cancer. For an organism like a human being, which begins as one cell and, in the adult phase, averages 70 trillion (70,000,000,000,000) cells, with these cells continuously dying and being replaced, it is apparent that this mind-boggling rate of reproduction will almost certainly have errors. We know that cancer is strongly associated with age—that is, the longer an organism lives, the higher the probability that a malignancy wil