Male1: When you use the word cancer, but why have we not even defined it. What is cancer?
Male2: It is not necessarily simple to say it, but cancer—the simple way to look at cancer is essentially a normal cell where something goes wrong in some of the mechanisms that regulate the ability of these cells to divide and therefore, there is an unregulated division of these cells and these particular cells will divide and divide and divide and eventually become big enough or enough of them to create problems for the body in which they are.
Male1: So in theory, down the road, if we can find a way to put the cell back to its normal way of living, we might have a cure?
Male2: That is one of the many ways that people are looking at it and over the period of the last 30 years or so, we have the so-called molecular biology and have become an exclusive science. People have been looking of that particular holy grail, although—
Male1: It might not be a doctor that might find a cure for cancer, it might be a geek on a computer?
Male2: Potentially. Actually, a lot of the—it is interesting what you are saying, a lot of ways for instance that we now use to look at the genetic information will really require the huge amount of computer power because the complexity of the information that is necessary will require incredibly complicated statistical analysis that can really not be found on the back of an envelope. That is for sure.
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