If Warburg was right and cancer originates from injured respiration, therapeutic strategy and drug design have to be completely reconfigured. Rather than attacking a hazy, moving target that by its nature cannot be directly hit, researchers will be presented with a single target that permeates the spectrum of disease. This scenario implies that cancer cells are not mutated versions of cells with superpowers programmed by an omniscient supervillain. They are damaged cells trying to survive in their own misguided way. They can be corralled, guided, manipulated and killed.