Should the 'War on Cancer' focus more on prevention, rather than treatment?

A new semester is upon us, and it is fun to see all the new medical and graduate students milling about the hospital. After a relaxing summer without much big news on the cancer front, just this week alone, I have come across several interesting tidbits and websites (looks like we are all back to work, just like the students!). I also start my biostats class today (pray for me).

A great summary article (by a neurosurgeon!) of the utter craziness that is the Medicare Relative Value Units (RVU) payment system (or how primary care doctors continue to get the shaft).
Are we missing an opportunity to prevent or cure more cancers by focusing the War on Cancer on treatment rather than prevention? (My answer: yes, but patients also need good treatments). There is also a good counterpoint here on how industry is overemphasizing the search for cancer drugs, at the expense of other diseases.
Read as an obstetrician explains why she believes that alternative health practices are a form of fundamentalism. (One beef with her rationale: The reason life expectancy is increased is largely driven by better prenatal and birth practices and better sanitation and vaccines, so I don't think medicine can claim all the prolongation in life expectancy — a number which by its nature is heavily weighted by infant mortality).
This letter to the editors of The New England Journal of Medicine perfectly sums up my concerns with resident work-hour limitations — they lead to a reduction in professionalism.
A man experiences unusual mental clarity during his chemotherapy (not the usual "chemo brain," is it?) for his recurrent esophageal cancer.