Yves here. The article below looks at researchers who are taking a “lessons learned” approach to cancer, as in focusing on patients who markedly beat the odds, either in surviving cancer or not getting it at all. We have some readers known to be beating the odds on cancer, such as Tom Stone and Henry Moon Pie, and we hope there are others. Even so, combatting cancer is an ordeal, with the major treatments, chemo, radiation therapy and surgery, all debilitating while underway. And many survivors have to take immuno-suppressive drugs which are costly and pose their own risks.

Being thin and not drinking help keep cancer at bay….although how far it is reasonable to go with personal austerity is an open question. Note that studies that find that lower BMI and fat levels are not positively correlated with lower all factor mortality are sus. It turns out that for