cancer is a very difficult disease to cure so curing it/helping to cure it would be your main goal but what do you hope

Question: cancer is a very difficult disease to cure so curing it/helping to cure it would be your main goal but what do you hope to achieve when you go to work every day
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  achievement,
  cancer,
  cure,
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Asked by dozzathetank to Alex on 14 Nov 2014.
- Alex Pool answered on 14 Nov 2014:
  
  Hi Dozza,
  
  Great question, and you’re definitely right that it’s really difficult. Each experiment we do gives us a bit more information about how cancer works, some of it we can then use to try and think about making a drug or treatment that will work.
  
  So everyday I’m just looking at learning a little bit more. Once you’ve done enough of that you can then start to pull all you’ve found together and start to think about targeting what you’ve found with a drug (that bits normally then done by other people).
  
  Hope that helps.
  
  Alex

Question: cancer is a very difficult disease to cure so curing it/helping to cure it would be your main goal but what do you hope to achieve when you go to work every day