Week 7, Our Knowledge of Cancer

I think Western Medicine's knowledge of cancer is both very sophisticated but also utterly lacking. Scientists and researchers seem to know the cellular problem of cancer pretty well, and this type of knowledge seems to be accumulating yearly. They know the mechanics of cancer at a cellular level. On the other hand (and probably because they have been blinded by too much microscope use), doctors and scientists are completely unaware of the overarching causes, effects, and outcomes of cancer. They have seemed to forgotten that the cells they are so fond to study lie within an extremely complex, multi-layered being.