Your frustration with the pace of cancer research is valid and there is a long history of people sharing this sentiment. Since the start of the “War on Cancer”,

Your frustration with the pace of cancer research is valid and there is a long history of people sharing this sentiment. Since the start of the “War on Cancer”, scientists, clinicians, and patients have been torn between the sometimes opposing forces of knowledge and the urgent need for treatments. I recommend “the emperor of all maladies” by siddhartha mukherjee for a historical perspective on cancer. However, the solutions are not as simple as you propose. There are a staggering number of experimental modalities used to investigate cancer. We sequence tens of thousands of tumors, many of which are available in public datasets. Digital pathology, single cell methods, spatial methods, etc. Large scale EHR management is a controversial issue in its own right, as is the question of breakthrough experimental therapies. Cancer is just a very difficult problem with many facets.