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Speaker 1: Complications are minimized, IC admissions are minimized, transfusions are minimized.

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Speaker 2: Doctor Motaz Cadan, surgeon in chief at Mass General Brigham

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Speaker 2: Cancer Institute, explains to me the multiple factors that he

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Speaker 2: believes account for the latest report from the American Cancer

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Speaker 2: Society that seventy percent of cancer patients are living more

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Speaker 2: than five.

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Speaker 1: Years, despite the fact that the incidences in some cases

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Speaker 1: stable or continues to increase for the disease rates and

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Speaker 1: so what this tells us is there is probably a

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Speaker 1: multifactorial background process that is happening here that results in

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Speaker 1: increased survival.

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Speaker 2: The goal, of course, is a cure, but bringing the

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Speaker 2: disease down to something of a chronic illness would be

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Speaker 2: a huge step, and recent state House action cutting down

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Speaker 2: the paperwork for chronic illnesses, Doctor Cadan fields should also

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Speaker 2: apply to cancer patients.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people don't know how to navigate healthcare,

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Speaker 1: and it's because the system is very complicated as well,

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Speaker 1: and so we have to try and simplify the access points.

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Speaker 2: From fruit Street. J Willett WBZ, Boston's news radio