how is it that donations to reseach are never ending? if you had just 2 million in the bank you could live for the rest of your life on the interest. But they find cancer retarding drugs but we canot afford the medicine who donates the largest ammounts? Joe Soap are we missing something?
2007-02-02 04:42:01 · 5 answers · asked by the bee man 4 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
You can find the answer to this question just by looking at the breakdown of costs and budgets for research from the National Cancer Institute.All of the donated money for cancer research is open to public scrutiny.
NCI: Research and Funding
http://www.cancer.gov/researchandfunding
NCI: Cancer Statistics
http://www.cancer.gov/statistics/
NCI: Annual Report
http://www.cancer.gov/nci-annual-report.pdf
2007-02-02 05:06:32 · answer #1 · answered by Panda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Huh? You have no idea how much cancer research costs. The interest on 2 million wouldn't last a day. They are doing research all over the world for many different cancer drugs and vaccines to prevent it. A group from Sapporo Medical University and Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma. has created the first vaccine that can treat and prevent several types of cancer--it's going into clinical trials soon. Go to their websites for more info. I'm sure billions of dollars have gone into that one. But how awesome will THAT be when it's ready??
2007-02-02 04:50:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Maybe you should donate a bit of time into researching how much cancer research costs..............
Isn't it worth it to try to find new treatments and cures.
Take the cervical cancer research. An injection has been developed to prevent 90% of cervical cancers and will be available later this year. Millions and millions of pounds has gone into that. Staff wages, labs, equipment, clinical trials that took place in several countries..............the list is endless.
2007-02-02 09:50:42 · answer #3 · answered by bannister_natalie 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Totally agree with Darienx - the researchers are barking up the wrong tree! The need is to be proactive but to expect a reactive response to hold the answers is unrealistic. Cancer is not just one disease - it's the mechanism of DIS-EASE that needs to be examined & the underlying causes for the INDIVIDUAL. We all know that smoking causes cancer but all know of people who have smoked all their lives & never got it. WHY is this? It's because peoples response to dis-ease & what causes it for them is INDIVIDUAL. There never will be a blanket cure for cancer so to continue to plough millions into it is futile.
2007-02-02 06:06:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
medical research is extremely expensive and even then , many drugs fail when tested on animals /humans.
it is a pity that we spend billions on trying to prevent terrorists killing a few thousand, when cancer kills many millions more. i do not support terrorism, but we need to get a correct perpective. we need all out war to cure disease.
2007-02-03 09:13:26 · answer #5 · answered by Nirmala 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋