The biggest problem with cancer treatment research is that some of the most effective treatments require lifestyle changes for the patient and don’t provide huge profits for the medical industry.
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This is a very important point that you make. Our lifestyle, particularly diet and smoking, contributes significantly to the incidence of cancer. There is a reason why it was a rare disease in ancient times but very common now. The human genome hasn’t changed much in two thousand years, but our diet certainly has. For one thing, we eat much greater quantities of sugar and other carbohydrates than our forebears did. Refined carbohydrates are the worst.
Consider this article:
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/757713