The 10-year survival rate for metastatic solid organ tumors today is approximately 15%, with potential to reach 20% based on newer therapies.

“if you had a solid organ tumor that had spread to a distant site in 1970 the chance that you were going to be alive in 10 years was the same in the year 2000 and that was basically zero now there were a couple of small exceptions and they happen to be the cancers that you and he are both interested in there were about 10 to 15% of patients could achieve a solid durable remission at the time to high do interlukin 2 but that was not appearing to be the case for any other epithelial tumor”