Right. Cancer is not a single disease, and so the drugs that will be effective depend on the particular cancer, and in some cases on particular mutations in the

Right. Cancer is not a single disease, and so the drugs that will be effective depend on the particular cancer, and in some cases on particular mutations in the tumor (see for instance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncogenomics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncogenomics). So any time someone hears you have "cancer" and suggests a chemical to treat it, you can safely conclude their advice is not worth following.