[User23]

Cancer really isn’t one disease. It’s thousands if not millions or maybe even billions of diseases that share some similarities. The odds of a silver bullet cure are effectively zero, but there’s plenty of opportunity to help sufferers die with rather than of. It’s a game of incremental improvement so it’s likely that greater investment would produce reasonable returns.

[reader_mode]

>The odds of a silver bullet cure are effectively zero

A way to kill a specific type of cells doesn't sound impossible (zero).

[contravariant]

Well it isn't, there's just many different types of cells that cause cancer.