Women, cancer and dangerous things

We all know that the Daily Mail partitions the universe into things that cause cancer and things that prevent cancer. But what sort of a thing is cancer? One way of investigating this is to look at things which they talk about in the same way as cancer. Crispin Blunt, according to today’s edition, had had a thirty year fight with his sexuality. Gayness, obesity, the Taliban, cancer. There must be more.