Cure for Cancer?
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One of the worst mistakes that we have made is the architecture we've created to refer to different cancers. We talk about lung-cancer or breast-cancer or colon-caner. We use the form xxxxx-cancer as if cancer is one disease that just randomly chose a specific body part to infect.
All cancers are different, there are types and groups and some are much more treatable than others.
A cancer is just a glitch, a malfunction. The number of times our body generates new cells every day, it's amazing there aren't more errors.
But it's a mistake to refer to them under one catch-all phrase: cancer.Articles like xxxx causes cancer, or xxxxx cures cancer are meaningless. It's a bit like saying "transport kills", well, what kind of transport? A car is different from a bike or a train or a skateboard etc.
There may never be a cure for 'cancer' but there may be a cure for certain cancers. We already have a vaccine for cervical cancer from HPV.
I always see it a bit like bug fixing. You iron out one bug but then there's some other error and you need to go back in the code and fix it etc.