Around us, we often hear that this parent has cancer, that relative has cancer, and even teenagers and twenties have lung cancer, many people can't help but wonder, living standards have improved, health habits have improved, why cancer is increasing, when cancer no longer threatens human health, when will cancer disappear from the earth?
The disappearance of cancer from the earth is likely just an unrealistic fantasy. The history of cancer is as old as human history, and the mummies unearthed a century ago in the Cairo Museum have been studied by modern technology to confirm that the Egyptian pharaoh Hajisu, 3500 years ago, finally died of cancer. In fact, with the development of society, the increase in human affluence, and the increase in life expectancy, the overall incidence of cancer is rising.
IT giant Microsoft has threatened that the latest method it develops may be able to eradicate cancer within 10 years, and Microsoft will use computer science technology to crack the code of diseased cells, reprogram diseased cells, and return them to a healthy state, just like through programming can solve the problem of computer viruses.
To this end, Microsoft set up a biological computing division in Cambridge, England. This department brings together 150 of the world's top gods, this "legion" of interdisciplinary scientists, will use artificial intelligence as a weapon to launch an attack on cancer, Microsoft is scheduled to overcome the cancer problem within 10 years, so that humanity into the era of cancer-free.
In theory, this high-tech technology is indeed feasible, but it is likely to eventually backfire, although the macroscopic structure of the human body is not complicated, but the structure of the human microcosm, molecular biology, is too complex, and the dynamic changes at every moment and computer code are not the same. Therefore, some people believe that cancer cells are an indispensable part of the human evolutionary process, a manifestation of the natural law of survival of the fittest.
Indian-American physician, scientist and author Siddhartha Siddhartha. Mukhji wrote a book called The King of Diseases: The Legend of Cancer. In the book, he points out that "illness is the dark side of life, a heavier and more troublesome citizenship." Every person who comes to this earth has dual citizenship, one belongs to the kingdom of health and the other belongs to the kingdom of disease. Although we are all only happy to use the passports of the Kingdom of Health, sooner or later, at least for a while, each of us will have to admit that we are also citizens of another kingdom. "People's lives are less than a hundred years, they must carry this dual identity, the end of life is often a luxury, cancer is one of the most common causes of death of elderly patients in today's society."
Looking back on the past, we will find that the past research direction of cancer is actually deviating from the normal trajectory, we put too much energy on how to overcome cancer, how to let patients prolong the survival time, a lot of money is spent on the development of drugs, and a lot of money is spent on the last few months of cancer patients. In the end, doctors are getting more and more tired, and patients are treating more and more, and the most important reason for this is that our medicine emphasizes treatment and neglects prevention. Now, this situation is gradually improving, and the public's health awareness is gradually improving.
It has been proven that proactive physical examination and anti-cancer screening are the most cost-effective ways to cure and eliminate cancer. Only focus on clinical treatment, do not pay attention to health science, doctors will inevitably become more and more tired. Only by moving from "downstream" to "upstream" and turning the salvage of people who have fallen into the water into preventing people from falling into the water can we get out of the dilemma of "getting busier and busier the more we treat".
Attaching importance to primary prevention can reduce the incidence of cancer, attach importance to secondary prevention, timely physical examination and screening, early diagnosis, early treatment, in order to have the opportunity to obtain cancer cure; and the development of advanced cancer, we can make the disease chronic through modern medical means and drugs.
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