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This is because medicine and science still do not understand cancer. Our treatments are very primitive and based on ideas that originated half a century ago. Our treatments don't address the core issue because we don't know what the core issue is.
Pick up the book The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee, written by a cancer physician and researcher. He disputes what you have said.
80skeys is assuming there is *a* (singular) core issue. There isn't. There is no singular core "issue" with regards to cancer that you can point at and say "AHA!"
While cancer can hit anyone, there are a variety of triggers and causes, depending on the type of cancer. For instance - childhood leukemia doesn't affect older people, ever. Older people are immune to it. Lung cancer -most often- is caused by smoking - but people who don't smoke can get it too. The #1 cause of skin cancer is over-exposure to the sun, as in - childhood sunburns. Overexposure to the sun is not a cause of brain tumors. Smoking causes all kinds of cancer - but oddly enough, breast cancer isn't listed among them. Breast cancer is one of those puzzles, where the cause is truly unknown. A person can have a dozen risk factors that are known to lead to it, and still not develop any cancer. And someone with no risk factors can end up with breast cancer.
So - some cancers - if you get it, you can usually pinpoint the cause. Others, you can't.
80skeys is assuming there is *a* (singular) core issue. There isn't. There is no singular core "issue" with regards to cancer that you can point at and say "AHA!"
But there is. Cells that don't stop cloning themselves.
steve64: thanks for all the links, I'll check them out.
But there is. Cells that don't stop cloning themselves.
But there are also tumor suppressor genes may stop the cell growing and dividing, DNA repair genes that are prevented from doing their job, inherited faulty genes, etc, etc.
Though I wouldn't do it, especially at his age, I don't begrudge his choice. However, I do wonder why religious people always seem to fight the hardest to stay alive, regardless of the odds. If they truly believe they are going to see their lord and savior, why not embrace it.
Stigma against not 'choosing life' among the religious...they think their lord and savior mandates extreme valuation of 'god-given' life
I appreciate that almost 9 years after the OP questioned why Jimmy Carter was pursuing cancer treatment and if he felt forced into it, he is still alive. Coming to the end of his life, yes, but alive.
I suspect he is happy to have had those extra years with Rosalynn. He was even teaching Sunday School at his church up until 2019.
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