Basically, the present situation can be summed up as follows (for "aggressive, common cancers, but we will leave lung cancer aside in this post):
A diet rich in omega 6 polyunsaturated fatty acids and low in antioxidant-rich foods creates the perfect conditions for such cancers (an iron rich diet and some other co-factors also appear to play roles). If you are afflicted with such a cancer, you may be told despite some potentially horrible side effects, one should instead focus on "the positive benefit/risk ratio of Glivec for thousands of patients being treated for cancer and other life-threatening diseases," and that you should take such drugs to "fight the battle against cancer." It is not likely that you will not be told that certain dietary changes may result in complete remission.
Source for that quotation:
http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-cancer-drug-heart-disease,0,3991287.story
Kary Mullis, inventor of PCR testing and Nobel Prize winner, has said in his autobiography that he would not take such drugs because of the toxicities involved. One point that I would make here is that the studies that are trumpeted by the mainstream media as great "successes" in the "war on cancer" are short term and are based upon entirely arbitrary criteria. For example, if a tumor shrinks, they say that it's a great success, even if the patient lives a shorter period of time and suffers terrible side effects. This is the "surrogate endpoint" - any time you are told that a surrogate endpoint is involved, I suggest you investigate the claim very carefully.
If a patient lives a month longer than those not taking the drug, but only lives a few months total (after diagnosis), ain, it's a great success, even if it causes terrible pain. And if a patient lives a certain period of time arbitrarily chosen to denote "success," that is the end of the "story" - the person could die the next day, and usually dies much sooner that people who never took such drugs, but that is not told to the public very often. This is also true for those who are give several blood transfusions in a short period of time.
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