How can we make curing cancer a global priority?

Cancer kills 7 million people worldwide each year. Yet it is a treatable disease that—in time—is beatable. However, in today’s troubled global environment, valuable resources that would otherwise go to cancer research are frequently re-directed by the crisis du jour.





What can we, as individuals and as a global community, do to focus %26amp; mobilize our governments to find the cures that will make cancer a fear of the past?

How can we make curing cancer a global priority?
I think that we need to look at our priorities. Yes, cancer kills many millions of people a year, but more people are killed in much more easily preventable ways. For example, in some countries children die all the time from diarrhea, which is easily preventable and easily treatable with the right medical help. Tuberculosis is still a big killer in poor countries, even though it can be treated as well. In some countries women die in childbirth 10% of the time. In some countries 30% or more of the population has HIV or AIDS. This is just unacceptable. Cancer is awful, but unfortunately it is just not the biggest problem in the world and it shouldn't be our biggest priority.
Reply:now today they are finding out that the products we puchase like toothpaste, soaps, beauty products, and deordant all have certain chemicals in it that cause cause cancer. people need to start buying all natural products and that is a start.
Reply:Unfortunately, I don't think governments are interested in the cure because there is no money in it---money comes from the sick people who need to purchase the TREATMENTS. It's sick and very sad indeed! I am tired of losing people to this monster!
Reply:The human population is exploding as it is. Until humans become responsible enough to limit and reverse their population growth, do we really need more cures?