Dr. Dino Prato argues health systems should prioritize prevention over treating late-stage disease. A WHO study across 185 countries found roughly 40% of cancers worldwide could be prevented with proper measures, yet systems remain oriented toward expensive late-stage therapies instead.
We need a system that's working for us, helping us to live longer so that we can be here with our families and enjoy our lives and not have to die young with a lot of these diseases that are unnecessary. Now, if somebody gets cancer in a later stage, there's even better ways to treat that with precision targeting. The World Health Organization and the International Agency for Research on Cancer just published that massive 185-country study, and their conclusion was simple but clear: 40% of cancers globally don't even need to happen if we did prevention correctly.
