The REAL Cure for Cancer

There’s a problem with early detection, in that we don’t know which will go on to become fully developed cancer and which the body will take care of. For instance we could us mammograms to capture many more cases of breast cancer before they will be detected otherwise. But we know from statistics that if not defected only 1 in 10 cases will go on to be a problem, that is the immune system is dealing with 90% of cases just fine. But if we systematically scan the population then those 90% will needless have surgery and a percentage of those will needless have chemotherapy. So early detection is not going to result in a better overall outcome. However knowing your risks helps us to target individuals for closer surveillance, then maybe we can get better outcomes. This is were genetic testing comes into play and of course along with that is research to identify mutations that lead to individuals being more likely to get cancer, which is now a growing area.