Cancer Treatments

There are many different types of cancers with some types being more common than others.  Many different organizations and foundations do research to find cures and develop more effective treatments, and they have been trying for centuries to make a major breakthrough. Most research foundations accept donations from the public to help further their progress in their studies. While we already have popular treatments such as surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy, we still cannot guarantee that any of those will be 100% effective, and some may argue that it's impossible to make any treatment that reliable.

    Sometimes I wonder where exactly all of that money goes, some foundations receive hundreds of millions of dollars every year and yet we still seem to not have made very much progress.  I know that studying something as complex as cancer isn't cheap, but we already know some of the key characteristics and behaviors of some of these cancers. So why haven't we created more potential treatments and cures to be tested by now?