The death rate for patients with metastatic solid cancer that cannot be surgically removed is 100% due to the lack of effective curative systemic treatments.

“median survival for metastatic cancer has increased across the board so a person today with metastatic coloral cancer or woman today with metastic breast cancer or a person with metastatic lung cancer these people will live longer with those diseases today thanks mostly to treatments”

“we're in such desperate need of better treatments for patients with metastatic cancers uh because we just we can beat them back a little bit we can improve Survival by months and for some cancers maybe a few years like breast cancer and colon cancer but everybody ultimately will succumb to the disease”

“the half little a little less than half of patients that cannot be cured result in this enormous tragedy of 600,000 innocent people dying of cancer every year one once the cancer spreads however and this in my view is a dirty little secret of oncology and that is that if a cancer spreads from its local site and cannot be surgically removed then the death rate in that patient is 100% that is we have virtually no treatments that can cure systemic treatments that can cure a patient with a metastatic solid cancer”