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The widespread and inappropriate use of chemotherapy is an obstacle to controlling cancer growth and metastasis in patients. Patients would certainly have a better chance of success had their cancer been "chemo-sensitive" rather than "chemo-resistant," where it is more apparent that chemotherapy improves the survival of patients, and where identifying the most "effective" chemotherapy would be more likely to improve survival. It would seem more prudent to invest the time in using diagnostic technologies for detecting cancer growths, as well as the properties of cells that are destined to metastasize, and match the most "effective" therapeutics to your "individual" cancer cells, not average populations.
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