 Of all the things that your doctor could tell you that might be a cause for alarm, hearing that you have late-stage cancer is probably one of the worst. Weve all heard people talk about a cure for cancer when in fact there is no one single cure. However things are starting to look up now. According to the National Cancer Association, between 2011 and 2015, more new treatments were approved for lung cancer the second most common type of cancer than during the four-decade period prior to that. Eventually we will get to the point where any stage of 