• Question: By next year do you think we will have medicines that could cure horrific diseases such as radiation disease?

    Asked by virtnack to David, Luna, Mark, Melanie, Probash on 20 Mar 2011 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Luna Munoz

      Luna Munoz answered on 16 Mar 2011:

      That seems like a question custom-built for Probash! 😉

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      David Pyle answered on 16 Mar 2011:

      Another one for Probash! I imagine that the lead-in time is decades rather than years?

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      Probash Chowdhury answered on 17 Mar 2011:

      Medicines for many diseases, simple and severe, are being developed all over the world by millions of scientist. Many medicines do not cure diseases but relieve symptoms.

      The illness caused by radiation probably can’t be cured for a long time, if ever, but the symptoms can be relieved, to some extent (depending on how severely affect by radiation the person is). However, because radiation causes extensive damage to the DNA, it may never be curable. The damage to individual DNA strands is often too much as well as many many strands are damaged at once.

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      Melanie Stefan answered on 17 Mar 2011:

      It takes many, many years to find cures for diseases, and then to test them and have them approved. Also, radiation disease is special in that the radiation causes a lot of unspecific damage which is difficult to repair, and in that one single exposure to radiation is enough to cause the disease.

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      Mark Vesey answered on 20 Mar 2011:

      Radiation sickness isn’t really a disease, it is more the effect of being exposed to radiation and ufortunately 1 year is not a long time to develop medicines or treatments so I don’t think much progress will have been made by next year.

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