[lonelyasacloud]

"The idea of taking a cancer-blocking pill if you live in a heavily polluted area is not completely fanciful. " - Prof Charles Swanton

Really interesting and, obviously major news in the battle against cancer.

In terms of research funding; wonder if it will lead to industries linked with cancer, e.g. tobacco, alcohol, motor vehicles ... , quietly starting to fund prophylactic R&D as well?

[wcerfgba]

Has a dystopian ring to it, "we don't need to clear up the nuclear waste, just take your thyroid pills and everything will be fine"

[ahaucnx]

Air pollution causes not only cancer but a variety of health issues including things like asthma or even behavioral impacts. Small particulate matter can get into the blood circulation and then stay in your body with all kinds of long term effects. So even if this reduces the cancer risk, it probably still causes other issues and reducing air pollution is most likely still the ultimate solution.

[bheadmaster]

Very similar to "we don't need to make quality of life higher, just take your depression pills and everything will be fine".

[candiddevmike]

"We don't/can't clean up the PFAS/lead, here's some bottled water"

[mike_hock]

Live in the pod, eat the 3-headed radioactive bugs ...

[tempodox]

Win-win: No need to invest into changing life-threatening tech and make money selling the protection. Profits can only rise!

[lonelyasacloud]

Yeah, I know very Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg like ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad_fdYFHYXo ).

Hard to argue that that is not where we are though ...