Cure for Cancers
Wild Card's progress: basic
This Wild Card came from:
European Commission Framework Programme for RTD
The theme/scheme related to this Wild Card:
Theme 1 - Health
The sub-theme that best relates to this Wild Card:
Transnational research on other major diseases: cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes/obesity, rare diseases, etc.
Likelihood timeframe and scenario features :
now-2050+
Wild Card's description
Due to a breakthrough in the stemm cell therapy, a cure for different kinds of cancer is developed. Longer life expectancy and higher quality of life is reached. Thereby the aging of the population is taking place even faster. Social systems are overburdened.
