[oh8eleven]

"This is absolutely one of the more exciting advances I've seen in cancer therapy in the last 20 years," said Dr. David Porter, a hematologist and oncologist at Penn."
Well, I would hope so after 40-50 years and billions of dollars spent on "research."
Quite frankly, I think too many make a living doing "research" to ever find a real cure.
Reminds me of Jerry Lewis and his MD telethons. Collected about $35 million a year for 40 years (~ $1.5 billion) and as far as I can tell, never made a dent in the disease.

[knarf]

That is a sad reality I’ve wondered about.

[ifinnegan]

Actually, cancer treatment and chances of surviving or living years after having it have increased hugely over the past few decades.

This is, though, based on some breakthrough of understanding or treatment, but just fine tuning and refining the original discoveries of chemotherapy, using poisons to kill the cancer cells.

It’s amazing how man people survive cancer now.