"It's not one disease" certainly preempts a lot of uninformed takes, but that in itself is a major contribution to the conversation we ought to be having. If yo

"It's not one disease" certainly preempts a lot of uninformed takes, but that in itself is a major contribution to the conversation we ought to be having. If your interlocutor is still thinking about cancer as a disease and not a large category of diseases with different causes, different characteristics, and therefore different solutions, there isn't much point to continuing that conversation until the situation has been clarified.