As long as we continue to treat merely the symptoms of cancer with treatments that are injurious and damaging to the immune system and, in the case of chemo drugs and radiation, are most oftten themselve carcinogenic, we will continue to see more people die of their treatment than are saved by it - even though the deaths are marked down as due to "cancer".
As noted architect Frank Lloyd Wright once observed:
"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."