Why Cancer ‘Cure’ Stories Are Mostly Nonsense

We probably won’t be annihilating all solid tumors any time soon

Pictured: A syringe full of air and ill-fitting gloves. Photo by Kristine Wook on Unsplash

At least once a year, we get a series of media headlines proclaiming that scientists have hit the holy grail. That we’ve found the big one. That the cure for cancer is just around the corner, or potentially already here.