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Cancer has bedeviled humankind since long before scientists even had a word to describe the dread disease. It is therefore understandable that our ears long to hear those magic words that will signal an end to our multigenerational nightmare: “Cancer is cured.” But this shared craving has periodically clouded our judgment, leading us to replace reason and evidence with hope and excitement.
Earlier this year, for example, an Israeli biotech company told The Jerusalem Post, “We believe we will offer in a year’s time a complete cure for cancer.” This would be a bold statement even for a treatment that was on the precipice of regulatory approval. But the approach trumpeted by the company, Ness Ziona–based Accelerated Evolution Biotechnologies Ltd. (AEBi), hasn’t even started clinical trials. As a matter of fact, there doesn’t seem to be much, if anything, published in the scientific literature ...
