Stop being so pessimistic about cancer. Death rates are dropping across the board. Even truly nasty things like lung cancer are improving: http://seer.cancer.g

Stop being so pessimistic about cancer. Death rates are dropping across the board. Even truly nasty things like lung cancer are improving: http://seer.cancer.gov/csr/1975_2009_pops09/browse_csr.php?section=15&page=sect_15_table.15.html http://seer.cancer.gov/csr/1975_2009_pops09/browse_csr.php?s... (statistics for all cancers are here) The way people tell it these days, you'd think we weren't making any progress. But we are -- every year. The path forward looks less like penicillin and more like imatinib.