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Line 1: {{trope}} {{quote\|'''[[Man of Wealth and Taste\|Marcus]]:''' Curing cancer, Mr. Wyndam-Pryce? ~~<br~~ /> '''[[Knight in Sour Armor\|Wesley]]:''' Wouldn't be cost-effective. I'm sure we make a lot from cancer. ~~<br~~ /> '''Marcus:''' Yes, [[Occult Law Firm\|the patent holder is a client]].\|''[[Angel]]'', "Time Bomb"}} A specific type of [[MacGuffin]], the [['''Cure for Cancer]]''' is something like a modern-day ''panacea''. It is the ultimate medical achievement that everyone is looking for. Some people will want to [[Money, Dear Boy\|sell it]], some will want to [[Information Wants to Be Free\|spread it for free]], and some will want to [[Withholding the Cure\|destroy it]]. For some reason (half [[Fantastic Aesop]] and half [[Status Quo Is God]]), the [['''Cure for Cancer]]''' often has some horrific side ~~effect--it~~effect—it [[I Am Legend\|causes zombies]], [[Human Resources\|is made from people]], or what have you. Often combined with [[Withholding the Cure]]. 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. Line 37: * ''[[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 ~~eradicated -- and~~eradicated—and it's discovered, too late, that it was the downside of an important part of the metabolism, which has also been eradicated in the process, drastically reducing human lifespan. * 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. Line 43: * 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 == Line 82: * 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.] {{reflist}} [[Category:Applied Phlebotinum]] [[Category:Cure for Cancer]] [[Category:Alliterative Trope Titles]]