Last week I read that cancer patients are living longer from time of detection. That may mean that it was only detected earlier and that the treatment had no effect on longevity.
My grandmother is the only person I know that chose to have absolutely no treatment for her breast cancer. She lived seven years from the time she finally told someone about the lump in her breast.
I can tell you story after story. All these drugs create side effects which demand more drugs. I have no confidence in modern medicine, at all. Trauma medicine is necessary and effective. I do believe they've made progress.
That is utterly ridiculous. Depending on where you draw the line at "modern" medicine, ask yourself if you've seen any kids crippled by polio lately, or seen anybody in an iron lung. Ask yourself if you've ever heard of an angioplasty, or an ultrasound examination, or a CAT scan. Is it "overrated" that tearing your ACL no longer means that you're hobbled, or that a heart attack no longer means that you flat-out die, or that nobody seems to have died of the German measles lately?
It's a long logical leap from "they still can't sure cancer" to "modern medicine is overrated".