Cancer is an unqualified enemy of the living world costing both in emotional turmoil and in thousands of careers invested in diagnosis, treatment, and research. Cancer is a broad collection of molecular disease states characterized by cells that divide in an uncontrolled fashion and that no longer respect their role or confinement within their tissue of origin. Despite the many environmental, hereditary, viral, dietary, and chemical causes of cancer, they all have one common root cause: mutational changes in genes that control cell division. What is the scientific community doing to attempt to eliminate the most common forms of cancer that are ravaging society