Even if Pfizer was capable of curing cancer they'd rather sell you a pill to treat it you'd have to take every day for the rest of your life.

Predictive programming: That's almost exactly what Lex Luthor did in the animated Superman: Doomsday.

Lex Luthor: Get this to Biochem, hand-carry only. Keep it off the interlink.

Mercy Graves: I know the drill, Lex. What is it, the cure for cancer?

Lex: Muscular dystrophy. I can cure every known case with a simple inoculation. Have Swan find a way to slow it to a crawl. Turn it into a lifetime treatment program. Right now, it's a mere $300-billion windfall.

Graves: And you need it to be a perennial, got it. But Swan's working the AIDS thing.

Lex: Oh, right. What about Schaffenberger?

Graves: Bird flu.

Lex: Hmmm... (puts away the cure) Guess "Jerry's Kids" will have to wait their turn.