The three switches that turn on cancer, and how to flip them back off
The cancer screening and cancer-treating business is a multibillion, if not multitrillion, dollar economy. We are all supporting it, directly because we have been touched by cancer or indirectly through our health insurance premiums and our taxes. Cancer affects all of us, in one way or another. Since the 1960s, the U.S. has waged a “war” on cancer but has not come close to defeating it. However, as a society, we are getting closer to being bankrupted by it. Each year, we spend more and more money on treatments, including new, exotic drugs, all of which costs us thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. We are urged to do more early screening for cancers and get more aggressive treatments once detected. We are even told to get genetic testing and consider mastectomies (and other drastic preventative surgeries) if the wrong genes are found. But none of those actions prevent us from getting cancer. The medical dialog is sadly silent on the issue of cause ...