I agree that there's been some progress in therapies and robot-assisted surgery, but the reason for the improvement in mortality seems more to do with early det

I agree that there's been some progress in therapies and robot-assisted surgery, but the reason for the improvement in mortality seems more to do with early detection. Cancer deaths overall are also improving due to fewer smokers, but that should be accounted for by "health standardized" measurements. I think this paper explains it: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27175568/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27175568/ "the major factors that accounted for these favorable trends were progress in tobacco control and improvements in early detection and treatment" I feel like the treatment progress for most metastatic solid cancers have not significantly improved. A significant improvement wouldn't be just improving overall survival by a year or so. What seems possible to achieve (someday soon perhaps) is making cancer either a manageable condition, like HIV now is, or curable.