Canada: Cancer wars: are we winning? - Health - CBC News

....But trying to answer the question of whether the war on cancer is being won means stepping into a contradictory tangle of statistics, anecdotes, hopes and fears.....

Clifton Leaf, author of an article in Fortune magazine called "Why We're Losing the War On Cancer," is one of the beneficiaries of the success against certain cancers affecting children.......
Leaf focuses on actual death rates, which haven't budged much in decades for the diseases that tend to be the hardest to treat: lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, liver cancer.