'Alternative cancer care' provider Stanislaw Burzynski accused of selling false hope in USA Today investigation

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Edit: I have no idea how to quote.

The success rate in the cancer cure biz is near zero. We have made huge strides in cardiac disease but almost nothing in cancer. The war against cancer is mis-conceived. Cancer is a complex set of diseases that arise from a complex web of causal factors. Many, maybe most, of these are tied up with environment and lifestyle. Even those with genetic predispositions need additional stresses to trigger cancer as a disease entity. Those who express cancers with certain genetically determined traits have something akin to a death sentence. Those with other cancers can sometimes be successfully treated. Almost all would have been healthier and even cancer free with better environmental and lifestyle factors. If anyone in the cancer field today believes that they have treatments that significantly affect morbidity and mortality of the aggressive cancers, they are hopelessly out of touch with research. Many of the existing treatments themselves generate additional cancers or cause existing ones to metasticise. If anyone is guilty of causing ‘false hope’ in cancer patients, it is pharma.

Uh, can you cite some sources on this? My understanding is that while we hven’t come close to a cure for cancer, survival rates are higher than they’ve ever been, and that matches the data I found while looking.

topic_survival_by_year_dx.pdf

This shows a fairly significant increase in lifespan for cancer patients - can you provide evidence that shows otherwise?

another edit: This paper reports the following in it’s summary as well:

Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975–2009, Featuring the...

The overall trends in declining cancer death rates continue. However, increases in incidence rates for some HPV-associated cancers and low vaccination coverage among adolescents underscore the need for additional prevention efforts for HPV-associated cancers, including efforts to increase vaccination coverage.

I am honestly interested to know otherwise and would like to hear more about this, because the above matches what I currently know and a well-sourced article to the opposite would be great to read through.