Most patients continue to face excruciating, ineffective, extremely costly treatments. It’s time to shift our focus from fighting the disease in its last stages to finding the very first cells.

From THE SATURDAY ESSAY at THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

• By AZRA RAZA

I have been studying and treating cancer for 35 years, and here’s what I know about the progress made in that time: There has been far less than it appears. Despite some advances, the treatments for most kinds of cancer continue to be too painful, too damaging, too expensive and too ineffective. The same three methods—surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy—have prevailed for a half-century. Read more