> yet we're still stuck with the same treatments, mainly chemo, surgery, and radiation, and generally low survival rates for advanced cancers. I disagree. Grow

> yet we're still stuck with the same treatments, mainly chemo, surgery, and radiation, and generally low survival rates for advanced cancers. I disagree. Growing up in my teens that was certainly true, but my fathers been battling stage 4 prostate cancer for a little over a decade and had few if any side effects from the treatments. There is a whole line of targeted chemotherapies you can take one after another after another when one stops being effective. On the other hand this can be perceived as a slow march to death from the flu eventually. It was stated to him ten years ago that he likely won't die from cancer. He's now on the last medication he will likely take, which addresses pancreatic cancer that is derived from prostate cancer. What I will argue is archaic is how long his doctor ignored rising PSA levels due to some magical number that the insurance company would not act before. At that time, the only route he had was removal of his entire prostate which causes a lot of quality of life issues. Since then they've developed more targeted treatments but I don't know that they're training family practitioners adequately yet still.