Quite the contrary, there has been a myopic preference for ignoring the consequences of a way of perceiving which is excessively specialised and short-sighted. Priority has been given to the immediate effects of a treatment, leaving the rest to chance.

This attitude demonstrates a deep and grave impasse in the treatment of disease, confirmed by the lack of theories and perspectives that enable us to see a physical disease in a new manner, different from the old. So far, there have been partial diagnoses that include only pathogenic analyses in a therapeutical perspective that is only symptomatological. Conversely, it is the entire individual who must instead be considered, in his vital dynamics as well as from a psychological and even spiritual perspective, even if these cannot be measured.

Soul and body are not two separate and non-communicating domains, but two manifestations of the same essence, and equally responsible for the health of an individual.

Because medical orthodoxy is closed a priori to this concept, the need for deep renewal is inducing thinkers and doctors to adopt alternative positions with increasing frequency. This is demonstrated by the growth of writing and testimonials that are not in step with the dictates of official medicine. This especially happens in the area of oncology, where a deep state of confusion and resignation is most felt.

It is in this area, in fact, that the failure of medicine is most glaring; it is here where the symptomatological approach reveals all its limitations; it is here where medical theories end in an infinite number of cul de sacs.

Genetics, the battle horse of modern oncology, is about to give up the ghost, together with its endless explanations based on enzymatic and receptorial processes. Actually, it has already failed – it is just that no one can think of anything else that can take its place. The consequence of the oncological establishment’s inability to admit the failure of this line of research, which is at this point scientifically indefensible, is the continuous waste of a great quantity of economic, scientific and human resources.

What road to take? Where to look for those minimal logical elements that can shed light on the ignorance that pervades oncology?

Many thinkers – especially biologists – believe that by applying the Darwinian theory to the evolution of living beings, it may be possible to walk a new road when it comes to the so-called degenerative diseases such as cancer, cardiopathies, and mental illness. According to this line of thought, these diseases are not attributable to environmental or genetic factors as is presently believed, but to infections.