I think that might be a bit too optimistic re: cancer. Cancer can happen just through normal cellular division in your body, and the older you get the likelier it is that it just happens randomly. This is independent of environmental factors, which certainly don’t help but aren’t the cause of all cancers.
You’re right … there are many forms of cancer that might be more harder to ‘cure’ or manage. Age also plays a role and it is generally agreed that as we age, the body inevitably just breaks down and eventually will start developing cancers no matter what we do in very advanced age. But the majority of all cancers we now live with are mostly all preventable and many of the ones that aren’t preventable could be treated. In a utopian world, we would manage all the food intake, environmental factors and genetics that all contribute to cancers in most people.
You’re thinking about it like cancer ceases to exist, but it’s more likely that we discover super early detection and non-invasive elimination.
Let’s use use the metaphor of a lawn that becomes overgrown by weeds. It’s difficult to control the entire ecosystem that contributes to the lawn, but if we’re able to detect a single invasive seed as it takes root, we could pluck it before it sprouts, let alone spreads. The lawn will quickly recover from a few blades of grass being removed. The longer it goes unmanaged, the more drastic measures and larger swaths must be killed to stop the weeds from overtaking the lawn.
I think that might be a bit too optimistic re: cancer. Cancer can happen just through normal cellular division in your body, and the older you get the likelier it is that it just happens randomly. This is independent of environmental factors, which certainly don’t help but aren’t the cause of all cancers.
You’re right … there are many forms of cancer that might be more harder to ‘cure’ or manage. Age also plays a role and it is generally agreed that as we age, the body inevitably just breaks down and eventually will start developing cancers no matter what we do in very advanced age. But the majority of all cancers we now live with are mostly all preventable and many of the ones that aren’t preventable could be treated. In a utopian world, we would manage all the food intake, environmental factors and genetics that all contribute to cancers in most people.
You’re thinking about it like cancer ceases to exist, but it’s more likely that we discover super early detection and non-invasive elimination.
Let’s use use the metaphor of a lawn that becomes overgrown by weeds. It’s difficult to control the entire ecosystem that contributes to the lawn, but if we’re able to detect a single invasive seed as it takes root, we could pluck it before it sprouts, let alone spreads. The lawn will quickly recover from a few blades of grass being removed. The longer it goes unmanaged, the more drastic measures and larger swaths must be killed to stop the weeds from overtaking the lawn.