Opinion question on cancer treatments please help?
BabyMeat asked:
Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent each year in the search for effective treatments of cancer; far less money is spent preventing cancer. Why do you think this is true? What kinds of lifestyle changes could we make to help prevent cancer? What kinds of prevention programs could be initiated or strengthened to encourage these changes? What factors might impede such changes and programs?
Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent each year in the search for effective treatments of cancer; far less money is spent preventing cancer. Why do you think this is true? What kinds of lifestyle changes could we make to help prevent cancer? What kinds of prevention programs could be initiated or strengthened to encourage these changes? What factors might impede such changes and programs?
Sorry, your information is incorrect. Tons of money is also spent to research causes for cancer and prevention. Because there are so many different types of cancer, it is harder to determine how to prevent them with 100% accuracy.
One sure prevention for cancer would be to stop procreation. If there are no people, or animals there will be no more cancer.
The facts are that only a very few of the over 200 different types of cancer have any known risk factors . . the rest . . no one knows what causes them . . if you don’t know what causes cancer than what can you do to stop it? My son was 17 . . an athlete who took care of his body, was fit . .he worked on weekends . . played sports . . went to high school . . perfectly healthy. He had a sports physical at the end of December and by the first of March he was diagnosed with stage IV abdominal cancer . . with tumors as large as volley balls . . there was no known cause . . and no cure. He died a few months ago. No one knows how to prevent cancer. No one knows the cause. For every suspected ’cause’ there are exceptions to the rule . . not everyone who smokes gets cancer . . and not everyone who has lung cancer has ever smoked. The list goes on and on. You might be able to protect your skin from developing skin cancer . . but end up with colon cancer instead. No one knows why one person will get cancer and someone else will not.
Those are the facts. If we could prevent cancer . . we would be doing it now.
We don’t know what causes cancer, if we did it would be much easier to find a cure and because we don’t know what causes it we also do not know how to prevent it. The first document case of cancer was in 1500 B.C. so our current lifestyle is not the cause. There are hundreds of different cancers and often what we learn about one helps with others. Research is to better understand them and that is more likely to lead to better treatments before we are able to learn a way to prevent them.