Median survival for solid organ tumors has increased by less than a year since 1970 despite significant spending on cancer treatment.

“for the quarter of a trillion dollars that has been spent on that problem on average for solid organ tumors we have extended median survival by less than about a year since 1970 so almost 50 years that's pretty sad when you think about the fact that there's not much evidence we've reduced the arrival of cancer in fact all we've done is basically come up with a second leading cause of cancer in terms of modifiable behavior which is after smoking it becomes down to diabetes insulin resistance and all of the metabolic distress”