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Why do you think “people’s treatment is not going any better”? As far as I know, cancer outcomes have greatly improved.

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It's the articles that decry "Big discovery in X".

This could be because the researchers need funding so they will hype the results as much as possible.

Then the articles need as much readership so the journalists hype the results as much as possible.

Then the people suffering from the disease want as much help as possible so they push the articles/papers to the doctors.

On the other hand, it's been my experience that GLP-1 agonsists weren't overhyped, I was completely surprised when my doctor prescribed Mounjaro for weight loss. Even after decades of articles about "NEW WEIGHT LOSS TREATMENT!" (See also phen-phen)

It's mostly the PR department of universities that boast about those big discoveries. Researchers themselves usually try to add some nuance to it.

Depends. Early cancer? Yes, outlook is getting better. Metastatic cancer? It's still very bad outcomes. (Personal experience.)

Cancer detection/testing has gotten a lot more attention. Detected early, many victims are still alive after 5 years and considered "cured." But it still gets you in the end. A lot of expense and misery while under medication/chemo/rad/surgical therapy and in the end you are dead just the same.

I'm not sure why this matters. In the end we're all going to die, death is inescapable. The ultimate form of your rationalization is that we should simply not treat anything because we die all the same.

But for many cancers and other diseases not only has early detection gotten better but so has treatment and prognosis. Treatment isn't nearly as bad to go through and long term survival rates are higher. People can live longer with cancer while still being fully functioning.

That’s the measurement that a lot of Covid deniers liked to roll out. Death isn’t the only metric.

Life is a precious and personal thing. Those years mean wishes fulfilled, graduations and weddings celebrated, life lived.

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