Comment by dekhn

I sympathize. Cancer, especially in the young, is very tough. Patients really have to aggressively advocate for themselves, which itself comes with risks. And the treatments are devastating. The drug I worked on in grad school is really close to killing people to save them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorouracil

But, recent work with immune treatments for cancer give me hope. I have not seen so many doctors and scientists say things like "the tumor just melted away" before.