[mschuster91]

> Drowning, falling off a ladder, and a car crash are all a type of accident but it’s really hard to find a thread tying them all together to deal with it generally.

Indeed, but humanity has managed to reduce "accidental deaths" as a whole by honing in on individual accident categories before - say, alcohol influence, combating that one by a multitude of means reduced car crashes, workplace injuries and domestic accidents.

Something similar might be possible for cancer as well. I think the solution already exists in nature, hidden within large animals, we "only" need to find out how precisely a 200 metric ton whale or a 10 ton elephant manages to beat statistic odds.

(Additionally, ever since COVID shone a spotlight on it, there is more and more evidence that lots of cancers are caused by viruses, most prominently herpes / genital cancer)