John L. Marshall -- How health-care reform can cure cancer - washingtonpost.com

"At the moment, there is a giant disconnect between patients, the cost of care and the clinical benefit of the treatment -- a disconnect that has caused us to lose perspective. When it comes to cancer care, we're not getting what we pay for.
Cancer medicine is often regarded as an area of significant progress and clinical research, so we should be able to tell without much difficulty what kinds of treatment are valuable and what kinds aren't.  

But given that 80 percent of my patients will die of their cancer, it's clear that we have not found an "optimum" therapy."