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Is Research for Eliminating Cancer Intentionally Stifled?
About three months ago, someone made an interesting claim to me. Citing his encounter with an unnamed doctor at an unspecified event as his source, he claimed that almost all of cancer research funding is dedicated to what he called "controlling" the disease, or treating the disease after it has occurred. He further claimed that research into the complete elimination of the possibility of people getting cancer, for which he used the term "curing", is intentionally held back by refusing to fund such projects. The reason, according to him, was that pharmaceutical companies make more money if people get sick and need to be treated, and less money if less people suffer from horrible diseases such as cancer. In other words, no research that focuses on hitting cancer at its core gets funded. Apparently, he hadn't given much thought to the fact that most medical research is funded by organizations other than for-profit pharmaceutical companies [1] . In any case, he was...
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