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We have vaccines for flu. Every year, a probabilistic determination is made of which strains will be a problem and those are put into the vaccine. That people still get it is down to incorrect guesses and inadequate herd immunity. The vaccine is super cheap (as low as $20 out-of-pocket and free via most US health insurance).

Cancer isn’t “one thing” that can have one cure, and it’s silly to think otherwise.

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Of course cancer is not one thing. But the truth is research with the little money we spend on it, is very advanced if you take almost any cancer into account. What is missing is money to push these efforts into final results.

Cancer’s not one thing but there’s some things you can do to generally improve your odds.

A doctor and an oncologist won’t tell you these things because they’re not even thinking about them. They likely don’t even know how to answer the question “can vitamins help some cancers?” Instead, mine repeated word for word responses about how we get most of our vitamins from a healthy diet. Then said he’d have to look it up.

Ask them about IGF1 levels, fasting, ketogenic diets they mostly won’t know. They simply say there is NOTHING you can do to prevent getting cancer.

It’s the system’s fault, the doctors and surgeons are just human beings who have no incentive to be practical.

I know we’re not supposed to refer to downvotes, but I had cancer and I worked in medicine. My points are valid and downvoting them is analogous is to the collectivist groupthink in medicine.

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