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Prevention is important but is cancer entirely preventable?

• davidf18 10y ago
  > is cancer entirely preventable? Medicine is messy. Even when we treat a heart attack, generally a person is not fully recovered. We should work on different approaches, but by far the one with the nearest timeframe and the most impact are those that lessen toxins attacking the body (e.g., tobacco), obesity (too much sugar sweetened beverages), use of sunscreens to prevent melanomas, etc.
• gozur88 10y ago
  No. If you live long enough, you will get cancer eventually. If you're unlucky, you can get cancer at any age, even if you give over the entire focus of your life to its prevention.