>"what we term cancer is really a whole class of diseases with a plethora of underlying causes" No, this is a new "talking point" come up with by cancer resear

>"what we term cancer is really a whole class of diseases with a plethora of underlying causes" No, this is a new "talking point" come up with by cancer researchers due to their slow progress. Cancer research is up there with social psychology in terms of reproducibility problems, why not deal with that before claiming "it's so complex": http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v483/n7391/full/483531a.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v483/n7391/full/483531a... http://www.nature.com/news/cancer-reproducibility-project-scales-back-ambitions-1.18938 http://www.nature.com/news/cancer-reproducibility-project-sc... http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/rigorous-replication-effort-succeeds-just-two-five-cancer-papers http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/rigorous-replication-... Cancer is one disease, characterized by, amongst other things, aneuploidy: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15549096 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15549096 Detect and target the aneuploidy and you can have a general anti-cancer therapy.