While we’re making reference to articles about cancer, I want to make sure everyone is aware of the excellent update Scientific American did back in July on recent evidence affecting theories of cancer. To my way of thinking it’s a must read. One interesting statement: One day science will produce a definitive answer to the question of what causes cancer. ...

One last idea to think about from The Scientist. It was a sidebar to an article so I’m going to quote it in full here. It raises some questions about what the cost will be–financial and otherwise–with more targeted and presumably, more effective cancer treatments.

From The Scientist “Can we prevent cancer? Absolutely, according to epidemiological data on migrant populations. The Japanese historically have a high incidence of gastric cancer and a low incidence of colon cancer. In the U.S., it is the opposite. In the last half of the twentieth century, upon migration to Hawaii, first generation Japanese saw a dramatic switch in the ...

There are a couple of additional articles in the cancer feature of The Scientist that should be of interest to FI Space.