12/25/2022 0 Comments Heal synonym![]() ![]() The reality of cancer lies somewhere between the public health ideal of perfect prevention and the depressing stochastics of bad luck. For that reason, it is unlikely that cancer could ever be eradicated. Cell division is an imperfect process like a biological keyboard with a letter missing, it makes mistakes. The majority of risk, the researchers concluded, was due to “bad luck”-random mutations during normal DNA replication.Īnd though that study provoked torrents of criticism about whether its conclusions based on tissue studies could be spun up to populations, it’s true that cancer is the price we pay as organisms composed of trillions of cells. It argued that only one-third of the variation in cancer risk in tissues is due to environmental assaults or inherited genetic predispositions. In 2015, a study in Science seemed to confirm our primal fear. Anyone who has suffered cancer, or has suffered alongside a loved one with the disease-a considerable portion of the population, given that more than one in three of us will be diagnosed with a malignancy during our lifetime-knows the anguish and helplessness that trail the diagnosis. Even today, it continues to occupy our collective imagination as the king of terrors: insidious, capricious, relentless. We tamed heart disease through smoking cessation, better medical management of risk factors such as high cholesterol, and improved interventions for a condition that has clear points of intervention and responds more readily to lifestyle changes.Ĭancer is a different story. We tamed infections with sanitation and vaccines, abetted by antibiotics. And on a broad scale, we have made far less progress preventing cancer than preventing its predecessor scourges. But advances in treatment alone will never be enough to fully stem the burden of cancer.Īs every public health professional knows, on a population level, the only way to substantially reduce incidence and mortality for any disease is through prevention. He left out the second part of the surgeon’s epithet: “the king of terrors.” Modern targeted treatments and immunotherapy have in some cases led to wondrous cures, and many malignancies are now caught early enough so that their sufferers can live out full lives. Siddhartha Mukherjee titled his magisterial biography of cancer The Emperor of All Maladies, quoting a 19th-century surgeon. The bad news is that cancer continues to bring pain and sorrow wherever it strikes. Cancer’s new ranking also reflects public health’s impressive gains against infectious disease, which held the top spot until the last century, and against heart disease, the current number one. Cancer is primarily a disease of aging, and the dubiously good news is that we are living long enough to experience its ravages. The shift marks a dramatic epidemiological transition: the first time in history that cancer will reign as humankind’s number-one killer. Later in this century, it is likely to be the top cause of death worldwide. In the next few years, cancer will become the leading cause of death in the United States. The only solution is a full-scale defense, so that nobody suffers the disease in the first place. We cannot treat our way out of the rising cancer caseload. (obsolete) To pay heed to care to give attention.It’s Prevention.One desperate grief cures with another's languish. To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, / Is able with the change to kill and cure. To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate a curacy.The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners. Spiritual charge care of soul the office of a parish priest or of a curate.Vicarages of great cure, but small value Of study took he most cure and most heed. (engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering. ![]()
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