Yeah see thats where things start tasting a little foul to me. I have a hard time believing that they aren't any further along in research. I guess I just don't trust governments and big pharm to believe that. I gotta think that with all these smart doctors and all this new technology that they have to know more and have to be further along. I just think that they big pharm is paying our elected officials to keep big pharm alive and thriving. Much more money in big pharm treating cancer than curing it. I know there are people out there that disagree with that, but no one will ever convince me otherwise.
On a separate note, sorry for your losses brother. My dad battled prostate cancer and beat it a couple years ago (had to have it removed, but he is alive)....tough old bastard....went through heart attack, stroke and prostate cancer in a two year window and spit in all their faces and laughed while saying "not yet you sons a bitches".