much more likely, they were nodding politely and saying what they know you want to hear. Can we please approach this with a little less tinfoil and a bit more logic please?
1) "Cancer" is not one thing and therefore cannot be vanquished by one kind of treatment. At least not yet.
2) Contrary to the picture you paint, researchers are humans - humans who have watched their own abuelas and fathers and sometimes their own children die from the disease. They are not monsters gleefully salivating over your.insurance card.
3) You have to treat something to cure it. 
4) We are at the nascent stages of true modern medicine. Our true understanding of the human body is in many ways, pitifully crude. We don't even really know exactly how Tylenol works. True story.
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