Among the principles we learned in elementary school, there is this: we must face the truth directly, otherwise, it will be impossible to find a solution. Therefore, "attack education" has become a daily education method that forces everyone to face their own shortcomings at all times. Therefore, only those who can really regulate their own mental state well, and in the existing education and growth system, rely on talent and hard work to achieve some results before the environment "disappoints" them, and can generally control the direction of self-evaluation, can it be said that they may be able to find a way to solve the problem from the truth (otherwise, even themselves will become a "problem", how can we talk about solving the problem?)
Therefore, day after day " Between "self-denial" and "self-affirmation", it is often difficult for us to focus on the problem itself. Therefore, even if we get closer to the truth every time, we may not necessarily find the best solution - just like we are obviously very concerned about our health and want to find the most effective way to prevent major diseases such as cancer, but we are very unwilling to understand what cancer is before it has any substantial connection with ourselves. We seem to know nothing about it, which can also be a way of self-protection.
However, the fact is that even though the development of modern science has demonstrated its powerful power in the face of many major diseases, the understanding of cancer has not gained a decisive impetus to accelerate the progress. Even at the genetic level, we have a profound understanding of cancer, but we still don't understand why cancer cells can grow indefinitely and stay young forever, why cancer cells can easily "incite" other healthy cells in the body, and why cancer cells can easily defeat people's immune system ... The learning process is the same: if we only go to junior high school, we can understand the basic social and historical processes and knowledge according to the syllabus; when we go to high school, the framework of our learning is still the same, but we need to understand it in more depth and detail; when we go to college, the content we study is only the more detailed branches of this knowledge, but the more we learn, the more profound and difficult it becomes...
So, as ordinary people, what can we do to prevent and treat cancer? Quit smoking? Drink more green tea? More exercise? Pay attention to your diet? Trying to lose weight? Supplement various nutrients? Or even move to another place that seems to have a better environment and more screening and treatment options? As long as you do this, can you sit back and relax?
is, but not entirely. At least from the perspective of cancer itself, there is still a long way between what humans do and the possibilities that can solve them.
The author of this book explains and analyzes all aspects of cancer in detail from a very professional perspective. It includes both professional content and self-care misunderstandings that may be involved in daily life. It is quite worth reading (however, some of the professional terms and knowledge involved in the book require readers to have at least the biology level of a high school student, or even more interest and understanding of relevant scientific knowledge to understand). However, although this book is already a social science book that strives to write professional content into simple and easy-to-understand science, and because of the author's usual expressions in English, some readers may still find the content of this book difficult to understand, and some chapters are slightly repetitive. Therefore, it is quite suitable to stop temporarily after reading each part. Reading progress, "digest" the knowledge of the previous part before reading the next part; however, readers who are interested in research and study in medicine can adapt to the writing style of some popular science literature on the Internet in advance from this book, and get a glimpse of the scientific research methods and experiences behind some diseases that we seem to be familiar with.