> I don't know how related colon cancer is to general cancer treatment Doesn't matter; that's not relevant to my point. When we attempt to find cancer treatmen

> I don't know how related colon cancer is to general cancer treatment Doesn't matter; that's not relevant to my point. When we attempt to find cancer treatments, we don't expect to find cures. (That's why we say "treatments"!) The goal of research into colon cancer is not to find a cure for colon cancer. It's to get the amount of remission that patients can expect to enjoy higher. Eliminating the cancer entirely is a completely different kind of result, and it would be the goal of a different kind of research.