Cancer took the life of tech pioneer and former YouTube boss Susan Wojcicki – at just 56 years of age.
In 2022, the shock diagnosis: lung cancer! It is still the most common cause of cancer death worldwide. On average, the 5-year survival rate is around 25 percent for women and 19 percent for men.
And this despite the fact that new, promising therapies are constantly coming onto the market. In BILDplus, Prof. Jürgen Wolf, Medical Director of the Center for Integrated Oncology at the University Hospital of Cologne, explains why cancer therapies do not work the same for all patients and why the disease is so deadly.