>Cancer survival rates have been improving for decades.

That's not really in question. Improvements in health and cancer treatments have definitely improved.

But I agree with the OP. It's the periodical headline of "New treatment may cure cancer" nonsense that seems to go nowhere. It's great that they are trying their best. But I feel like it provides a lot of people with false hope.

Having had two relatives die from cancer, one of them in a fairly horrendous way and whom begged to be a participant in such trials, seeing headlines like this is nice but I generally don't give them much thought anymore beyond reading the comments section.