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You think there is less cancer today than in the past?

• taylodl 4y ago
  That isn't the relevant question. The relevant question is were you to get cancer today what would your prognosis be versus what it would have been forty years ago? Some cancers from forty years ago that were essentially death sentences are successfully treated today with minimal impact to quality of life. Obviously that's not the case for all cancers, but it is for many of the most common cancers - which has been our focus. My point is year-over-year the progress has been slow and there's always reports of "breakthroughs" in cancer treatment. But if you look at the bigger picture you can see we've made serious strides in cancer treatment.