cancer fatality rates have dropped a lot over the last 20 years honestly. there's been an insane amount of work done. to your point, that's actually what a lot of work tries to do - a number of treatment strategies work on a cellular level because the cancer cell actually takes up too much of a drug.

> but I think with regards to cures for cancer it's been practically a century

lol the structure of dna was only published 69 (nice) years ago bud