Yeah. Similarly, I pretty much landed (around a decade ago) on seeing cancer as little more than a small subset of death for which we'd identified features and given it a name--i.e., before humans identified cancer, people just died for then-unknown reasons (which were likely, at given points in history, called 'natural causes'). Once we identified cancer, people 'got cancer' and, subsequently, a varying percentage of such people died, with that percentage declining as understanding and treatment improved. I remain fascinated by cancer research and the hope for a cure because I remain fascinated by seeing humans practicing science discover more ways to identify death and prevent it.