Caporegime
There's been some promising stuff with MRNA stuff recently, but MRNA is so tarnished from COVID CT peeps.Yup and it's probably taken decades to find exactly how the cancers they can treat with them work in a way that then allowed them to start looking at how to deal with that specific cancer without risking damage to other cells. And in the process they've probably enabled advances in the treatment of a hundred other non cancer related diseases.
From what I understand, a lot of the problem with treating cancer is that most traditional methods can do major damage to the person with it, so there is an element of at what point is the risk from the cancer higher than the risk from the treatment, assuming you've found it early enough to get the luxury or not having to go straight into surgery.
So whilst it may appear that we've not made massive progress, in reality the ability to safely treat it has improved massively over the last 30-40 years, which combined with the ability to detect it early thanks to improvements in testing methods/technologies means there has been a lot of progress.