Ok, im going to throw a spanner in the works here.
Supposely there were great floods and only 2 of each species were allowed so they could re populate the world.
Natural disasters happen and kill 10,000's of people at a time.
Cancer directly effects 1 out of 3 people.
Whats that qoute from the matrix "Humans are the cancer of the planet". Alright thats from a film, but its true. We over populate and destroy the world we live in. Maybe cancer is there to serve a purpose? If we cure all the diseases it means less deaths, more births over populating even faster! We have already cured a lot but maybe this just is not mean to be.
It sounds quite harsh but obviously it doesnt just take "the bad people" all the rapists,muderers and so on but loved ones close by who dont deserve it. I lost family to cancer so I know what its like. But I cant help but feel that this is natures way of trying to slow down the human race.
Cancer is just the result of mutated cells?? it isnt some holy warrior out to keep our species in check
Cancer is not one specific thing, its lots of things all under one umbrella definition, and if you think about it, its suprising it only effects 1 in 3 given just how many of us there are and just how many cells each of us have! All it takes is one cell's self destruct mechanism to be mutated and it can be the beginning of a tumourous mass in that person. It is my opinion it has been killing all living creatures that have a similar cellular structure to humans since the beginning of time, however we detect it better and indeed diagnose exactly what kind it is far quicker as the years progress.
If we reduced the amount of radiation we live amongst and reduced the amount of highly refined chemicals we take into our bodies im pretty sure the current rate of cancer would decrease, however to do this we would also have to reduce the quality of life technology and refined foods offers us, so its far better to find ways to kill the cancer cells than to try to naturally decrease its rate.
There are lots of proposed solutions out there, ranging from re programmed viruses (seeing as viruses are excellent at killing cells, in theory one programmed to kill specific cancerous cells would be very good at this also) through to the more technological approaches such as the all wonderous carbon nano tubes!
Its a problem that will never have one all ecompassing solution imo due to the exceedingly varied nature of the beast, however as with chemo and radiation therapy now, I believe it is likely one or more underlying new techniques will evolve that can be altered to suit many if not all of the types of cancer cells we have to deal with.
That being said, I am no biologist and get all of my info from science blogs / sites and mags, so I may be totally off the mark
