I guess that the 8 year old is God's collateral
damge, for I can
not imagine how many abortions he might have had, bottles of Patron he might have drank, or drugs he slammed to warrant this fate.
The metabolic theory of cancer (Warburg, Seyfried) looks much more promising, and under it, cancer is triggered by the familiar numerous identified carcinogens, which cause mitochondrial damage (
not gene
damge), but is fed by glucose, and is arrested or killed by ketone bodies (ketogenic diet).