Understanding cancer: how cells become cancerous and why metastatic cancer is so deadly

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

Well SupportedCancer risk increases with age due to the accumulation of mutations over time as cells divide and accumulate damage.

Partially SupportedChoriocarcinoma and germ cell tumors are historically curable with chemotherapy, while melanoma and renal cancer are curable with interleukin-2.

Partially SupportedEpithelial cancers account for 90% of cancer deaths, while hematologic cancers account for 10%.

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