"Cancer is a political disease... Adopting lax regulations, letting manufacturers evaluate their own products, knowingly allowing carcinogenic substances to be spread to pander to captains of industry, betting on discovery of miracle cures rather than on prevention and hindering consumer information: all this is not inevitable, it's #politics.
'#Cancer is, at least in part, a political disease' - Le Monde
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2025/02/13/cancer-is-at-least-in-part-a-political-disease_6738127_23.html https://archive.ph/tzLiA #Capitalism #health #bigpharma #medicine
'#Cancer is, at least in part, a political disease' - Le Monde
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2025/02/13/cancer-is-at-least-in-part-a-political-disease_6738127_23.html https://archive.ph/tzLiA #Capitalism #health #bigpharma #medicine
'Cancer is, at least in part, a political disease'
Focusing solely on individual behavior, genetics and screening in the face of rising cancer rates hides the structural causes of the disease, writes Le Monde's Stéphane Foucart in his column.Stéphane Foucart (Le Monde)