Nelson - thanks bro. Appreciated.
Regarding the "cure":
Cancer is as unique as the people who suffer from it. There won't ever be a blanket "cure for cancer" which you can take in the morning for all cancers everywhere. I think we need to start small, with something like testicular cancer (not all that aggressive in its initial stages) and really help ourselves better understand what gives rise to these cancerous processes.
Problem with cancer is that it's our own cells doing their own thing at their own rate... you can stop cellular division in the body, sure, but it'll kill the rest of you too.
My ideal would be a rapidly-developed, patient-specific immuno-targeted therapy which would be specific to the cells in question. So, our job as researchers (in my mind) is to find ways to abate the onslaught right now (R+ALA has been mentioned, and I agree that the work is excellent), and perhaps find a better way to administer things like TNFalpha directly to the site of a tumour (this wouldn't work for things like leukemia, of course), while still trying to fight our way through to the source and cutting off the driving force of these cells by telling them to stop dividing.
I don't care if it's me personally who succeeds, but if others can stand on my shoulders and see the end of the search from higher and closer than they ever have before, I'll die a happy man.
Oh, and having enough money that I'll be comfortable doesn't hurt either.
-M