More effective.... (Score 1)

I would think that a more effective approach to the cancer problem would be preventitive gene therapy. Since cancer seems to be genetically caused by improper oncogene coding, I would like to believe that the retrovirus (HIV) could be use to correct the genetic problems. I know we're a long way off from this (considering most of the oncogenes have not been properly identified), but I'm sure this will be the future (rather than using HIV to cure AIDs) By the way... oncogenes are those oncogenes control proper cell division (when the oncogenes are messed with, cancer cells result)