Maybe I am getting too cynical about things, but it seems every year there is news of some new drug or therapy that will put C down pat. I have been hearing such news since I was a kid. Then, quietly, the news evaporates.
The super rich will get to use this stuff, that’s why the news goes away.
There are over two hundred different types of cells in the human body in which cancer can happen by various mechanisms. The idea that they could find one basic mechanism for all of these cancers was a false assumption when Nixon started the "War on Cancer." It was a time that they had no idea about tumor suppressor genes or epigenetics. The biological news learned in the meantime has filled volumes, and it's been mind boggling.
As someone who works in the field I hope this comic can provide some insight.
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1162
You said exactly what I was thinking.