I have no experience in the field, but I have a close family member with a fairly uncommon kind of cancer (multiple myeloma). One thing that is clear through s

I have no experience in the field, but I have a close family member with a fairly uncommon kind of cancer (multiple myeloma). One thing that is clear through speaking with doctors and moving through the process of treatment is that a _lot_ of the treatments he is receiving are quite new. Everything from drug selection to the process of marrow transplantation enjoys the benefits of recent scientific advance. We have been told regularly something to the extent of: "the best time to get cancer is always now/in the future". If he had this cancer 1 or 2 decades ago his projected outcome would have been very different.