Cancer seems to be the final frontier of medicine, the only disease keeping humanity from the semi-utopian future envisioned in the minds of great sci-fi writers like Arthur C. Clarke, in which humans live for hundreds of years at a time. Every other disease can be contained, avoided, quarantined or outright cured, but cancer is much more difficult; it is the result of our own bodies turning against us, and killing us in the process, and as we cannot reprogram the human genome, and a lot of cancer is inoperable, and untreatable, it is the nightmare reality of all too many people world wide.