Around 70 years ago, radiation and chemotherapy were used to treat cancer in a blind way, messing up people's bodies and always leaving them feeling much worse than before treatment. Some were indeed 'cured' for a while, but the cancer reappeared. Simply put, they did not understand cancer at all.
A few years later, they observed how a specific type, lung cancer, was dramatically increasing among the population. They tried the same methods to 'cure' it, largely unsuccessfully, untill they realized the correlation between the environment(smoking habits developed during that period of time) and the cancer increase.
More studies were performed and the correlation became even stronger. Once they more fully understood that and managed to reduce smoking among the population(following a strong fight with the money-motivated industries that produced and marketed cigarettes), the prevalence of lung cancer dropped among the people.
They had uncovered an enviromental causation for a particular cancer and, instead of relying on historically ineffective methods of killing cancer inside people's bodies, they prevented it from happening in the first place by reducing smoking among people.
It is thought that such 'cancer prevention' approaches will save far more lives than cancer treatments. So prevention is very strongly preferred over treatment.
Today there are warning labels on all cigarettes to increase awareness, this is one example of the many environmental causes for much of our problems today. The root problem stems from greed and corruption.
However, we can change these circumstances if we stay vigilante.
A few years later, they observed how a specific type, lung cancer, was dramatically increasing among the population. They tried the same methods to 'cure' it, largely unsuccessfully, untill they realized the correlation between the environment(smoking habits developed during that period of time) and the cancer increase.
More studies were performed and the correlation became even stronger. Once they more fully understood that and managed to reduce smoking among the population(following a strong fight with the money-motivated industries that produced and marketed cigarettes), the prevalence of lung cancer dropped among the people.
They had uncovered an enviromental causation for a particular cancer and, instead of relying on historically ineffective methods of killing cancer inside people's bodies, they prevented it from happening in the first place by reducing smoking among people.
It is thought that such 'cancer prevention' approaches will save far more lives than cancer treatments. So prevention is very strongly preferred over treatment.
Today there are warning labels on all cigarettes to increase awareness, this is one example of the many environmental causes for much of our problems today. The root problem stems from greed and corruption.
However, we can change these circumstances if we stay vigilante.
