Cancer is in many cases pure bad luck. Not screening is to play Russian roulette.
Despite advanced medicine, we know today that a large share of cancer cases arise in people without clear risk factors.
As Bert Vogelstein showed in his widely noted research: cancer is often about random DNA mutations.
- Most mutations are repaired
- Most damaged cells are eliminated
- But sometimes a cell arises that escapes the control systems, and develops into cancer
This can happen even in otherwise entirely healthy individuals.
Relying solely on lifestyle and risk factors is therefore not enough. A significant part of the risk lies beyond our control.
This is where screening becomes decisive.
Regular, advanced screening is not about worry, but about detecting what otherwise goes unnoticed, in time.
Not screening is in practice to accept a game of probabilities where the outcome can be decisive.
At Executive Health we focus on exactly this: moving detection from late to early, where the outcomes can actually be influenced.
