Diet and exercise are great for prevention but not so great for cures.
If you want to avoid getting cancer, then leading a healthy lifestyle is an excellent idea.
If you actually have cancer, whether because you don't lead a healthy lifestyle or you did but just got unlucky anyway, then it's too late for diet and exercise. They might still help, but what you need at this point is treatment.
Pharmaceutical companies may not do prevention so well, but this article is about what happens after prevention fails, at which point you need cures, and every pharma company out there is trying to be the next one to produce a big (and probably expensive) cure.
> Pharmaceutical companies may not do prevention so well, but this article is about what happens after prevention fails, at which point you need cures, and every pharma company out there is trying to be the next one to produce a big (and probably expensive) cure.
Pharma companies are a lot bigger on treatments than cures (how much of this is that treatments are easier to find than cures, and how much of it is that cures eliminate their own market and thus make less business sense is a matter of debate.)
> how much of this is that treatments are easier to find than cures, and how much of it is that cures eliminate their own market and thus make less business sense is a matter of debate
Only in the sense that things aren't very easy to find when you aren't looking for them. Otherwise there really isn't much debate. Nothing brings home the bacon like chronic disease.
Does that apply to cancer? With cancer, it seems like a race to kill it before it kills you, and it's not generally something that can be managed as a chronic condition.
If you want to avoid getting cancer, then leading a healthy lifestyle is an excellent idea.
If you actually have cancer, whether because you don't lead a healthy lifestyle or you did but just got unlucky anyway, then it's too late for diet and exercise. They might still help, but what you need at this point is treatment.
Pharmaceutical companies may not do prevention so well, but this article is about what happens after prevention fails, at which point you need cures, and every pharma company out there is trying to be the next one to produce a big (and probably expensive) cure.