Why Cancer Still Sucks

As an oncologist, I wrote about several topics in A Short Primer on Why Cancer Still Sucks (Amazon Books). This channel expands on these issues. What causes cancer? Why is it so common? How can you reduce cancer risk? How does screening help? Who gains most from screening and is there a down side? How does cancer make people feel so sick? Why can only some people have cancer surgery? Why can it fail? Who benefits from radiotherapy? Why is chemotherapy so important? What progress have we made in reducing its toxicity? What is targeted therapy, personalized therapy, and precision medicine?  How does the immune system reduce cancer risk? How does immunotherapy work? What about alternative and complementary therapies and oncology myths? What slows access to effective new therapies? What price do we pay for these delays? Why are drug prices so incredibly high? How can we reduce them? I have worked in both American and Canadian health systems. How do they differ? What advances are coming?