Cancer and TCM

Our understanding of cancer is more advanced than ever we now have a basic understanding of how cells become cancerous and some conditions of why. but the question remains why a woman who smokes 2 packs of cigarettes a day lives to a hundred but some children get cancer before there exposed to lifes toxins. so why do we get cancer? I think the TCM approach of identifying combinations of symptoms that contribute to the cancer enviroment like Damp -Phlegm in the body for a prolonged period has a more situational viewpoint on cancer. maybe by treating the disease in elements its easier to diffuse the pattern of disease.