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The article sounds pretty negative, but if you look at 5 year survival rates for cancer you see slow but steady progress: https://pancreaticcanceraction.org/wp-

• whoisjuan 9y ago
  Hmm, but no progress in pancreatic. That one seems pretty lethal.
• dennis_jeeves 9y ago
  The steady 'progress' is not what it seems. Improved and earlier detection of cancer means that a patient will survive for significantly longer after the detection past the 5 year mark. Several decades ago the patient would die relatively quickly between the period of detection and within the 5 year period. As one of the posters ( reasonattlm )pointed out,cancer can be regarded as one of the diseases of aging. To kill cancer cells will not improve things beyond a point because the body will produce more. I would speculate if detection methods we sufficiently sensitive, we would _all_ have some cancer cells within us. It is a matter of degree. Summary: Except of a few types of cancer, the treatment has not improved the outcome for cancer patience during the past few decades. Also remember: lies, damn lies and statistics. My sources: A non-mainstream cancer doctor ( but is a conventional MD ) who was widely regarded as a quack, by the mainstream medical community. Heresy is not tolerated well.