Sorry for being pedantic, but much harm is done by this misconception.
Nothing can 'potentially cure cancer', cancer is hundreds if not thousands of (often) very different diseases.
Also put another way: cancer is simply the result of evolution at the cellular level.
You can't 'cure' evolution, all you can do is try to implement some 'population control' strategies that will work (for a while) for certain genetic variants.
besides, nobody is asking to cure cancer in all population for all times. but in specific individual. who may or may not reproduce later in life.
EDIT: don't need to downvote me being curios. if i didn't ask, this guys who answered would have less chance to post this usefull stuff . so i'm somewhat beneficial to this.
Evolution drives cancer.
>besides, nobody is asking to cure cancer in all population for all times. but in specific individual. who may or may not reproduce later in life.
Seriously? Go back and re-read what the GP said.
wikipedia on cancer: "A large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body.... Cancer occurs when problems in the genes of a cell prevent these controls from functioning properly. These problems may come from damage to the gene or may be inherited, and can be caused by various sources inside or outside of the cell"
I think he implied that cancer is an inherent flaw in the gene based reproduction used by complicated organisms. That our genes' ability to mutate, which introduces new and evolutionarily selectable attributes during sexual reproduction, can play up because of things like "tobacco use, infection, radiation, lack of physical activity, poor diet and obesity, and environmental pollutants.", and lead to cancer.
I'm not saying it's totally 100% correct, although I suspect it is close, just explaining what I think he meant.
Warning, clinking on that link may give you nightmares.
Cancer is when certain cells in your body become "greedy" about their own survival without regard to the survival of the organism as a whole, and begin to literally compete with the rest of the cells in your body for resources. Normally there are regulatory switches that tell cells to kill themselves when they become damaged beyond the point of repair, but tumor cells have found a way to bypass these safeguards (either because of chance DNA damage at exactly the right sites, genetic susceptibility to malfunction of the safeguards, viral infection, or some combination of the above). As an example of how tumors compete with your other cells, they usually secrete growth factors to create new blood vessels feeding them at the expense of surrounding tissue.
If ti does cure cancer, she will make a fortune through patent grants.