Do you believe a cure for cancer should have been found by now?
But as Chris Rock said, there is no money in a cure, the money is in the come back...
But as Chris Rock said, there is no money in a cure, the money is in the come back...
Anonymous
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First, understand that "cancer" is not one thing. Cancer is many things, in many varieties, and lots of flavors. Polio is a single disease; cancer is many diseases. There will never be one cure for cancer.
Second, if tomorrow you figured out that drinking yak urine will cure cancer, then you will collapse a multi-billion dollar industry, putting thousands of people out of work, from donation officers to oncology nurses, to scientists. If tomorrow you figured out that drinking yak urine will cure cancer, you would likely suddenly disappear.
sirjester099
They will never cure most forms of cancer as cancer is one of nature's built in kill switches!
If and when they think they have cured one form it will most likely evolve and treatments will become ineffective!
thinkingtime
In a country with universal health care, a cure for all cancers would save a lot of money.
Ian
Imagine how much profit is made from 'treating' cancer: The drug companies are making a fortune! All that profit would vanish if there were a cure. Maximizing profits - through every possible means - is the underlying principle of the market economy! It is something of a shame that so many millions have to suffer so much to sustain the Stock Market.
Lab Guy
As mentioned cancer is not one monolithic disease. Breast cancer is different from lung and is different from prostate cancer. Only the ignorant think it is and don't know the difference.
Dead people don't buy things and its hard to make money off of dead people because they don't pay their bills regularly. There is no money in allowing people to die of cancer. The pharmaceutical industry is a very large industry that treats other conditions besides cancer. They are losing more money by people being dead than by being alive. If they were successfully treated for cancer then they will continue to be productive in the economy as consumers.
Finding a cure for "cancer" would allow those people to continue to pay for many more drugs for the rest of their lives. They could make money off of heart disease, kidney disease and other many diseases out there. If they don't die of cancer then they will die of some other disease that pharmaceutical companies can make money on. There is no incentive in letting people die of cancer for the short term small money gain. Finding a cure for cancer would big a big money making drug for the drug companies. They would also make more money with them living and dying of other diseases that they can also make money on.
The pharmaceutical industry is not hiding a cure nor are they killing people who claim to have a cure. It makes no logical sense at all. The "cancer industry" is a small fraction of the people who are sick in hospitals and in clinics. The bulk of the money being made is not dependent on cancer patients. That is true for hospitals and that is true for the pharmaceutical industry.