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by commandar
3692 days ago
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I have no idea which documentary you're referring to, but the idea that cancers are a class of different diseases with differing mechanisms isn't exactly fringe. I mean, here's Harold Varmus, former head of the NIH and a Nobel Prize winner for his work on cancer research: "What we've learned can be grouped into three categories. First, we've learned that cancer is not simply a single disease that affects many parts of the body. It is not, for example, a "war on cancer" as a single enemy. It is many different diseases with common themes that can cause different kinds of disorders in many of our organs. These include mutations in many different genes, changes in essential cell functions, and unusual interactions with the cellular environment in which tumors grow. We need to study each of these areas separately." https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/magazine/issues/winter13... |
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