In some ways, the success of cancer research is fueling pressure to “cure” cancer quickly, steering clinical and laboratory researchers away from the tricky problems of metastasis and long-term tumor dormancy. This focus ultimately may be shortsighted, as the increasing number of cancer survivors leads to an increase in late recurrences.
在某些方面，癌症研究的成功也给迅速“治愈”癌症施加了压力，导致临床和实验室研究者们更倾向于回避那些棘手的扩散和长期肿瘤休眠问题。但这种做法最终将可能是短视的，因为癌症康复者的增加也导致了后期复发的增加。