Cancers are in an evolutionary battle with treatments

Interesting article, in essence this has been tried empirically by trying several treatments togheter or in immediately one after another, hoping the combination will have a stronger effect, but since each treatment have their own complications and risk it is not so easy to evaluate if it meant a benefit.

Using a well defined methodology like evolutionary game theory can improve things much more, it is not going to change treatments overnight because it needs a lot of data from small trials on patients to work, but in the medium to long term it can revolutionize how treatments are used, hopefully to get much better results.

Why is so much invested into treatment and not prevention?

I'm no expert, but is cancer not a little different from other diseases? It involves random changes in cells. We can perhaps reduce the chances of getting some cancers, e.g. by not smoking, changing diet, etc. But we can't absolutely remove the chance of cancers developing. If treatments can prevent a cancer growing, is it not a kind of prevention anyway?

Very interesting article outlining a new approach to treating cancer. But I am not optimistic. We spend much much much more money creating weapons of mass destruction to kill people rather than cure them. If we could dedicate that money to cancer and other medical research, the human condition would be so much better. If we can't change, guess we deserve what we get.

I am not optimistic. We spend much much much more money creating weapons of mass destruction to kill people rather than cure them.

It's not black and white. We also spend lots of money on cancer research. It would be better if the war money were redirected to healing money, but having war money doesn't mean there isn't any healing money.