Agreed. My wife is going through this now, and the primary issue is the uncertainty around it all. Nobody can tell her what her future holds, just that there's a very high likelihood that 'success' will be fleeting and this won't be our last series of chemo.

I may be misunderstanding what the author proposes, but if the threat of cancer was reduced to the physiological impacts of dormant tumors, I'm pretty sure we would consider that a win.

Always relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/931/ really helped visualize for me what going through cancer treatment is like. God speed.

This pretty much nails it. Thank you.

Look on the bright side: You might get hit by a bus instead.

Methinks future lies in between. Many people say that we all have cancer, at different scales and different reach. So just avoiding massive tumors and metastasis is probable the goal.

So cancer will only kill poor Americans?

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html