He’s running an interesting series of posts on the topic:
When it comes to cancer treatment, we are indeed Neanderthal, compared to the ideal, and to how it’ll surely be in a few decades. It’s because of two most major failings: first, we have no way of knowing, for a given individual, how much is enough to cure a cancer (and the converse: we can’t tell which tumors aren’t going to be cured — even they fall into a favorable category — no matter what treatment we apply.) Second: we don’t have the proverbial magic bullet — a therapy that will kill every single cancer cell, and spare everything else.
