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If we look at the oldest medical systems that we had in the past, we can see that they see cancer formation differently from what we are doing nowadays [1, 2]. According to some studies in Ayurvedic medicine, we can see that they understand that cancer comes when there is an imbalance between the doshas (Vata, Pitta, and Kapha), leading to imbalances between them that get out of control and forming in their final stage cancer [1].
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