Cancer is often a death sentence. We measure survival rates in 5 years time. And if you are one of the lucky ones to handle enough poison to your body to push it into remission, the chance of a sudden and aggressive reoccurrence isnt 0 due to the amount of DNA damage from radiation and chemo. When I had a scare I learned about valter longo’s research into fasting and chemo, and that may be one way to improve survival rates by protecting the healthy cells but the treatments may cause a new cancer in the future. Younger patients are extremely resilient and have a better chance of keeping it at bay and handling higher doses of chemo. Also some pediatric cancers are curable because they irradiate the bone marrow and replace it with a donor essentially changing the child’s immune system. That being said cancer is not my specialty and maybe an oncologist can weigh in better than I can. Either way it’s one of my biggest fears and I pray we keep making headway with immunotherapies vs chemo and radiation

Edit: also some cancers are treated with only surgical intervention and this does have less chance of reoccurring in the future. My post may sound a bit more bleak than reality