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So, on one hand, as per our last +1, science shows that genes play a surprisingly small role in the cause of cancer.   Yet…   Guess where nearly all of that $100 billion of research money has has been spent?   Yep.   We’ve spent $100 billion dollars on research and we spend $100 billion dollars on cancer medications every year operating under the assumption that cancer is, primarily, a genetic issue.   To put it directly, that appears to be the essence of why we’ve failed to win the war on cancer. We’ve been looking at it from the wrong perspective.    Result: No improvements in the real death rates since the 1950s.   Here’s the short story on the two conflicting theories regarding the origin of cancer:    The dominant theoretical orientation within Western medicine is something called the “somatic mutation theory” (or “SMT”) of cancer.   It basically says that cancer is CAUSED by genetic mutations.    Now, there’s no question that cancer cells are pretty wacky genetically. In fact, the sheer