Great news! The percentage of cancer patients that will benefit is small (4%) and the percentage with prostate cancer is even smaller, but the absolute numbers of people are large - 15-20 thousand patients per year in the U.S. That's a lot of people who will potentially experience significant remissions. The numbers quoted above are from the Reuters article.
Cancer treatment is still very much a one step at a time process. Find something for one slice of patients, then another, then another, then another, and pretty soon we're talking real progress.
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