ACS Researchers: Progress, Challenges in the War on Cancer

some excerpts:

"...many surgical treatments have become far less disfiguring."

"However, the ACS experts note that researchers have yet to find screening tests and effective therapies for other highly lethal types of cancer, such as lung, liver, ovarian, pancreatic, and brain cancer."

"The epidemic of overweight and obesity—which is associated with the incidence of many types of cancer—during the past 2 decades in the United States has created a new public health challenge, and it is unclear how it is affecting cancer incidence rates currently and in the future," Gapstur and Thun write.