No offense but you’ve been misled by cycles of hype and hysteria, plus much over-simplification in the media.
There has been enormous progress in many areas of research and treatments for various cancers, but it is a vast and varied set of targets. Many lives (including my own) have been saved and/or dramatically extended. A lot depends upon the specifics of diagnosis, cell types involved, stage of the cancer etc. but there has been much progress indeed.
However, “cancer” refers to well over 100 different major illnesses with many sub-categories and varied types of cell pathologies.
Expectations for some one or few “magic bullet” types of treatment to cure all cancers have always been myopic at best.
That does not mean there are not great strides made, usually by intense focus upon a specific category or sub-category involving one particular type of cell.
In my own case (8 year cancer survivor now) I owe my life to a combo of chemo drugs that did not exist too many years ago. 30+ years ago I would have died rapidly and horribly of the type of carcinoma I was dealing with. Everyone in human history (before the past 30 years) who had my specific condition would have died within 12-18 months.
Large numbers of patients have been saved and/or had lives much extended, but we tend to hear/read mainly of fatalities and of the most horrific choices people may face (take on the most brutal chemos for possibly only a few months more life and/or in horrible misery etc.).
I can’t tell anyone how to donate their money, but the idea that there has been no significant progress is simply mistaken.
of course chemo regimens are often brutal (mine was, taking me to the brink of death from the chemo itself), but combos of chemo and/or radiation and/or surgery, as appropriate, have helped large numbers of patients in recent years....
one hopes that new approaches in research and testing will succeed in many cases with avoidance of the grueling effects of chemo-radiation-surgery, which are all frequently too broad-brush un-targeted approaches to treatment
e.g., the more severe chemo regimens can kill ALL fast-growing cells in the body and not just the ones involved in the cancer, which is why terrible side effects are too often associated with chemo