Oncologists agree to disagree on a major aspect of cancer therapy: on one end of the spectrum they think that all cancers are truly curable, when and if detected in time and treated correctly ? the other extreme adheres to the generalization that every treatment of cancer (with a very few exceptions) is, in the long run, palliative. Of course, the ?long run? is becoming longer and longer, due in part to increased screening followed by earlier diagnosis and in part to more efficient surgical procedures and chemotherapy. Nevertheless, the majority of sincere and humble oncologists (eventually, life teaches you this lesson!) believe that they are only postponing the inevitable, sometimes for many years?.
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