I would like to claim poetic license, plus, lets face it,
we labelled out of control bacterial growth as many different diseases till we had a single medicinal approach.
As a tentative example, Mina Bissell's theory on micro-environment supporting cancer growth indicates a penicillin style solution would fit her category of cancer.
Please don't take this as "all cancer researchers are fools looking in the wrong direction, I know better, join Scientologists" but my utterly uninformed gut reaction is that the different cancers all have such common and overlapping indicators (uncontrolled cell growth, basically) that there being multiple different root causes that all trigger the same feature seems, unlikely without other factors.
We may spend a long time treating the different cancers differently according to which is most effective. But saying that such commonality does not or even cannot have a common cause seems too early.
I will of course defer to anyone who knows of better (hell, any) evidence to tear down my layperson POV.
As a tentative example, Mina Bissell's theory on micro-environment supporting cancer growth indicates a penicillin style solution would fit her category of cancer.
Please don't take this as "all cancer researchers are fools looking in the wrong direction, I know better, join Scientologists" but my utterly uninformed gut reaction is that the different cancers all have such common and overlapping indicators (uncontrolled cell growth, basically) that there being multiple different root causes that all trigger the same feature seems, unlikely without other factors.
We may spend a long time treating the different cancers differently according to which is most effective. But saying that such commonality does not or even cannot have a common cause seems too early.
I will of course defer to anyone who knows of better (hell, any) evidence to tear down my layperson POV.