[gus_massa]

> as well as being highly intractable.

It varies a lot with the type of cancer, how fast it grows, how advanced it is, and a thousand of additional factors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_survival_rates

Cancer is not a single illness, but a family of related illnesses, the main problem is that we don't have a different street name for each one.

Imagine viral infections. What is the survival rate for viral infections? It can be a common cold, or Ebola, or somethin in between.

[rmtech]

Cancer is a group of illnesses that share a key common trait of uncontrollably dividing cells.

But when I say intractable I mean that the amount of output in lives you get per dollar of input is small compared to other issues that you can help with.