LINDA STOUFFER, CNN ANCHOR: And going now to a new breakfast time feature here on CNN's</s>EARLY EDITION: "Ask CNN." You ask, we try to find an answer for you. Well, today's "Ask CNN" is about finding a cure for cancer.</s>GRETCHEN LUDEMAN: My name's Gretchen Ludeman. I'm from South Dakota. And I'd like to know when there's going to be a cure for cancer?</s>ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Now it's important to remember that cancer is not one disease. So, we're not going to have one cure to all kinds of cancers. Already we can cure most cases of certain types of cancer. We can cure most cases of childhood Leukemia, for example, or of testicular cancer, or of certain kinds of lymphoma. Now, in the future, doctors talk about getting targeted treatments for cancer. Chemotherapy and radiation can hurt healthy tissue as well as cancerous tissue. And in the future what they want to do is target treatments just to the cancerous tissue. Oncologists also talk, not so much about cures to cancer, but about treatments for cancer that would turn cancer into a chronic disease that you could live with, such as diabetes, rather than a death sentence.
Ask CNN: When Will There be a Cure for Cancer?