Haydn Bush, in Science 84 (Sept. 1984), P.O. Box 3207, Harlan, Iowa
To judge press releases and newspaper headlines, the cure rate for cancer has been improving steadily for years. Actually, writes Bush, di- rector of the London Regional Cancer Centre in Canada, "we're not cur- ing much more cancer than we were a generation ago."
Doctors can claim real progress in effecting cures for a few relatively rare cancers (e.g., childhood leukemia, Hodgkin's disease) but for only two of the more...