Seems getting cancer and surviving taking into account every type of cancers are a lottery. Some cancer types have so low survival rate that it would be better of trying to come to terms with it and enjoying your day to day as much as possible as opposed to living with suffering due to treatment. And some have extremely good prognostics where it's a good idea to give hope so your body helps with the recovery. Some have a 50/50 or 70/30 there it's always worth a fight to survive and trying to stay positive is vital to help body fight. Seeing the overall being 50/50 it all comes down to the type of cancer. I think the media should acknowledge this and not give the impression that dying to cancer is losing a war like they do now by focusing only on the surviving. There should be a more emphatic approach taking into account the possibility of not making it which there is no room for in society. I know my grandmother which got cancer in her 80s said she regretted the treatment and wouldn't go trough it again.