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{{quote|'''[[Man of Wealth and Taste|Marcus]]:''' Curing cancer, Mr. Wyndam-Pryce?
'''[[Knight in Sour Armor|Wesley]]:''' Wouldn't be cost-effective. I'm sure we make a lot from cancer.
'''Marcus:''' Yes, [[Occult Law Firm|the patent holder is a client]].|''[[Angel]]'', "Time Bomb"}}
A specific type of [[MacGuffin]], the
For some reason (half [[Fantastic Aesop]] and half [[Status Quo Is God]]), the
Note that the reason we don't have this in [[Real Life]] (and the reason it is so sought-after) is because "cancer" is an extremely general term for any number of diseases. Some of them ''have'' actually been cured, especially on individual cases, but no miracle cure is forthcoming.
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* ''[[Succession]]'' mentions at one point that every time the main gun is fired, the crew develop "the simplest and most easily cured cancers" as a side effect.
* In the novel ''[[The Child Garden]]'' by Geoff Ryman, cancer is
* In the satirical book "Looking Backwards at the 80s (written in 1979) it's discovered that clubbing baby harp seals to death causes their brains to release a chemical that cures cancer.
* 'Cancer cure=zombies' also appears in the [[Newsflesh]] series.
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* In ''[[Never Let Me Go]]'' by Kazuo Ishiguro, {{spoiler|the main characters are clones created to be used as unlimited organ donors for the cure for cancer}}.
* In the [[Neil Gaiman]] short story ''Changes'', a cure for cancer known as "rebooting" is developed, which, while it cures any case of cancer overnight, also has the [[Side Effects Include|minor side effect]] of switching the patient's biological sex.
* One of [[Fred Saberhagen]]'s [[Berserker (Literature)|Berserker]] stories had a damaged Berserker agree to negotiations with a human colony it couldn't be sure of killing in a straight fight. It took the opportunity to infect the human emissary with a bioweapon. But the weapon was tailored to this man's flesh, the only sample of human biochemistry the Berserker had, and ... [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|"I think it's killing off my cancer."]]
== Live Action TV ==
* An episode of ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' had an alien come to Earth, landing near a small Mexican town. The Mexicans distrusted him/it, and eventually killed it, but not before it tried to give them a gift in a book, which they burned. A nearby white scientist who had seen this happen but was held back from doing anything grabs the book and puts it out. He reads the inscription out loud.
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* In ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', the Goa'uld symbiont can cure cancer, among other diseases. Jacob Carter became a Tok'ra host for this reason.
* The (initial) plot of ''[[Crusade]]'' revolved around a search for a cure for an alien plague.
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* In ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'', Dracula discovered the cure for cancer and hid it on Mars.
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* ''[[Keychain of Creation]]'' (an ''[[Exalted]]'' webcomic) has two demigods traveling Creation undercover.
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'''Misho:''' Oh, but it's so easy once you know how to do it!
'''Marena:''' It's still not [[Schizo-Tech|period]], mister. }}
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* Cannabinoids. [[wikipedia:HU-331|No, really.]]
* [[Antimatter]]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120802084517/http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2006/PR15.06E.html No, really.]
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