Some people might have been thinking of a magic cure-all, others of a variety of improved treatments. There were many people alive in 1998 that had been cured of cancer already.
Until I went into the cancer treatment industry, I mostly thought cancer was just a single process with a single cause (except for maybe leukemia but I also don’t know that I knew that was a cancer in 1998) that just happened to different parts of the body.
Some people might have been thinking of a magic cure-all, others of a variety of improved treatments. There were many people alive in 1998 that had been cured of cancer already.
Until I went into the cancer treatment industry, I mostly thought cancer was just a single process with a single cause (except for maybe leukemia but I also don’t know that I knew that was a cancer in 1998) that just happened to different parts of the body.