How can it be possible to collect millions of dollars in fund raising every year for cancer research?

And still have the highest cancer statistics every year. What I mean is that the research is costing millions of dollars and the cost of medicines are on the rise every year and the nation gets sicker and sicker. What's going on ?

How can it be possible to collect millions of dollars in fund raising every year for cancer research?
Where did you get your information? What do you mean by "the highest cancer statistics every year"? And "the nation gets sicker and sicker"? Please look at this these:


http://progressreport.cancer.gov/trends-...


http://progressreport.cancer.gov/highlig...





The best site for cancer information is here.


http://www.cancer.gov/





What's going on is that the American health care system--if you can call it a "system"--is dysfunctional. Many other countries (most of the industrialized world) have better health statistics, such as life expectancy, than the US, and spend far less money achieving it.





If you want to do something, write to your representatives in Congress.
Reply:Actually, billions are spent every year on cancer research just here in the USA. Many industrialized countries also have large cancer research budgets.





Realize, cancer is not one disease. It is a description for many diseases with a common symptom: uncontrolled cell growth.





Cancer caused by multiple gene mutations. There is no current technology to fix any genetic disease.





To give you an idea as to the complexity and cost, look at the just mapping the human genome. I believe it took over 10 years and many billions of dollars. That's just to sequence the genes. That does not even begin to figure out what each gene function(s) are.





The investment has produced many new and effective treatments. Some of them like Gleevec, Sprycel and, Tasigna have given most CML patients indefinite remissions with mostly mild side effects.
Reply:"the nation gets sicker and sicker" ... I think you're another victim of mainstream media news. Their job is not to tell the truth, their job is to make things seem exciting and fantastic and scary, so that you'll tune in more, or read more, or listen more. That's their "bias."





It's as true as it ever was: DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU SEE IN THE NEWS.
Reply:Cancer is over 200 types and subtypes of disease with four stages of each cancer. None of the cancers respond in the same manner to treatment. You cannot use the research for breast cancer to treat bone cancer. Each cancer needs its own research, its own protocol, its own chemotherapy. Which means it needs its own funding, its own research facility, its own Clinical Trial, its own researcher or oncologist experts, and patients willing and well enough to undergo research and trials.





There have been enormous strides made. You just are not aware of it because you are not involved in the Cancer world. The biggest problem at the moment is metastatic cancer . . which is advanced cancer that has spread from the original site. There are few treatment options available for this type of late cancer and there are even fewer options for the 'orphan' or 'rare cancers' that no one has ever heard about. Most research funding goes towards the more common cancers such as breast, lung, and colon cancer. The expensive drugs are caused from trying to spread the cost equally across all cancer types . . to fund the cancer research for rare cancers.





Actually cancer in the US has not been rising, it has been going down. The results of years of research means that there are more and more survivors of cancer. All cancer types, stages, and grades of tumor now have survivors where as just a few years ago they did not.





At the moment there is treatment for cancer that will lead to individual cures . . but there is no magic bullet that will cure all cancer types.