The war on cancer begun by Nixon has been a categorical failure. Chemotherapy in particular has done more to enrich the drug companies shareholders than it has to help cancer patients. In truth, survival rates have changed little in the last 30 years. What has change is the numbers of people getting cancer. We are in the middle of a cancer epidemic.
Current statistics give a person living today a one in three chance of dying from with cancer.
It is only by keeping the true cancer statistics from the general population that this charade has been able to maintain itself. That's for just one drug in a multi-drug regimen that often includes the drugs cisplatin and etoposide. Toxicity of Chemotherapy. 303. 8 Fields, KK, et al. 9 Kolata, G. Women resist trials to test marrow transplants.