Treatment options for advanced cancer are less effective than those for advanced cardiovascular disease, resulting in a poorer prognosis for stage four cancer patients.

“a person today who has advanced cardiovascular disease has a much better prognosis much better prognosis than a person today who has very Advanced cancer uh a person today with stage four I.E metastatic uh endothelial tumors so that means a solid organ tumor like breast lung pancreas prostate colon one of the sort of quote unquote bread and butter tumors a person today who has one of those cancers that has spread from its original site to a distant site that's metastatic or stage four cancer that person has about the same 10year survival as a person did with that tumor”