Just checked with my cancer textbook and it cites a 1990 study from the Netherlands that indicates that curing all cancer would increase life spans by a little

Just checked with my cancer textbook and it cites a 1990 study from the Netherlands that indicates that curing all cancer would increase life spans by a little less than 4 years. Most people who get cancer are quite old. This doesn’t lessen the tragedy of young people dying from cancer but it is rare.