War on Cancer
The underlying assumption of most approaches contained withinthe War On Cancer is that we can find one cure for all cancers.Consider just two types of cancer: basal cell carcinoma and coloncancer. These are both caused by a combination of what particularalleles of certain genes a person is born with, and mutations thataccumulate due to environmental exposure and the process of aging.Some of the genes are shared, and some differ between the diseases.How likely do you think it is that there is a single approach thatcan either prevent or cure both of these? How likely do you thinkit is that there is a single approach that can cure or prevent manycancers?
