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exratione
·12 years ago·discuss
There's the SENS approach, which is radical and based on present knowledge will absolutely prevent all cancer by striking at the one mechanism that all cancer needs. That comes with a hefty side-order of required advances in stem cell medicine in order to keep things going without said mechanism, however:

http://sens.org/research/introduction-to-sens-research/nucle...

The SENS Research Foundation is entirely supported by charitable donations.

If you want something a little less radical then helping any group working on targeted cell killing technologies is more useful than what you were probably going to do with that money otherwise - though of course finding a place to donate that will funnel your funds to this particular research is a challenge. The typical cancer charity is about five levels removed from picking research projects, but one can hope that this will change with the spread of crowdfunding techniques into the sciences. Immune therapies are the front runner technology there, but many other approaches exist (nanoparticles, viruses, bacteria, etc). Some of these approaches seem likely to effectively treat many different types of cancer, such as work on CD47:

http://news.sciencemag.org/health/2012/03/one-drug-shrink-al...