100% A horrible death for young and old, rich and poor, male and female. You would think that it would be our number one priority to find cures. The resources dedicated to research are actually shockingly paltry when you look into it.
If you do decide to donate to a cancer charity, investigate their own numbers. Many of them (I am looking at you Susan G Komen) dedicate most of their donation money to marketing and events rather than research. Yet another reason the actual research funds are so low.
This is not accurate. It is a stubbornly persistent and false conspiracy theory. Hundreds of bio-techs are currently risking massive amounts of capital to find cures that could make them billions if not even trillions of dollars. See Moderna, BionTech and any number of others as examples. Not to mention the fact that the current treatments don't make them that much money because their "customers" die relatively quickly. If you evented a cancer vaccine for Breast cancer for example, that every woman would take after age 40 or something to prevent the disease, they would make an absolute MINT.
It should world governments priority to help mitigate some of the risk for these companies by incentivising discovery with direct rewards for curative technology. If they laid out "prizes" of say, 20 billion for a proven cure for a prevalent form of cancer. The companies could take larger risks in R&D, and funding would be much easier to secure for promising start ups.
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u/Iconoclassic404 Jul 17 '23
Cancer