The pointers to the publications are colored blue. In order to read them please click on the blue text. Treatment of most adult cancers, e.g., cancer of the breast, prostate, and bronchus, is less effective. Generally treatment does not prolong survival, and is effective only for improving the quality of life. This outcome can be read off the cancer statistics.
Cancer is still a riddle.
The death rate of most cancers does not decline. The interpretation of competent epidemiologists is confusing. Medicine presumes that cancer starts as a local pathology while in reality cancer starts as a systemic disease . Colon cancer is a disease of the entire colon mucosa. Medical confusion is most pronounced in the treatment of in situ breast cancer, and prostate cancer .