Do you believe that the major cancer charities actually WANT to find a cure?..?

yes i totally believe that they want to find a cure...this is a totally absurd question!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! get real, you a a dolt!!!!

Well, it's pretty obvious what your slant on this is. And the implications of the questions are not totally unfounded. No doubt the "medical-insurance complex" is huge, consuming more and more of the Gross Domestic Product. Even to the point of becoming a national security problem of sorts. We can't become a nation where nearly every dollar goes to medical care.

Charities come and go. They mostly serve a very good purpose. Funding for the charity and a way for ppl interested in the cause to direct their energy, concern, and money.

99% of ppl working for the cancer related charities truly wish for a cure, and would be happy if one was found, in spite of the affect on their job. After all, they could easily be a victim. They, as well as the CEO, would quickly find another job, probably for another charity. The world will never run out of a need for those.

Cancer treatment, fund raising, and research do give employment to hundreds of thousands of people. But so did polio 50 years ago. After the vaccine for that, I don't recall any gnashing of teeth. Just much joy and relief. People redirected their energy and talents.

And certainly ppl specializing in cancer research and treatment would have no job market problems at all. With the aging of the population, be plenty of jobs in medicine.

Good questions. Thought provoking.

I've discussed this same topic with family and friends for years. No, I know for a fact that little of the money from charities acually goes to research. After working in a Cancer Center, I also learned that little funding actually goes into research as well. Few physicians actually care about the cure for cancer or prevention, because there's no big $$$$$ involved, although there are a select fine few, who have devoted their time and own $$$ to finding the cure.....Bravo to them! I believe in a couple of hundred years that a cure will be found, but could the common, poor person afford the cure?????

The charities would turn from research to promotion of the cure and helping people afford it. Being that the cure will be so expensive that only about 1% of the worlds population would be able to afford it. Researchers and oncologists would not loose their jobs because there will still be people going through the treatments we have today because they cant afford the cure.

Not to mention that being there are so many different types of cancer, it is unlikely that a sudden cure will come up that will cure all the types. There will still be researchers trying to figure out how to cure the other types.

Also being that we dont have the technology to detect the single cancer cell, with our technology today, a treatment would have to be proven over a generation atleast for it to medically be considered a cure.

You can see how much a charity's president makes at http://www.charitynavigator.com/

While sometimes a charity's president does make quite a bit of money, almost always they could make more money in the for-profit section. To give you an example, the president of the American Red Cross makes half a million a year, but he would almost certainly be making 7 figures if he were in private industry.

So yeah, I think cancer charities do actually want to find a cure. Perhaps the drug industries don't, but cancer charities have no reason not to desire a cure.

That's a question that has been bouncing around for years. It does seem odd that after all this time and the billions of dollars poured into cancer research, so little progress has been made. An argument could be made to the contrary, but at this point in time, dropping a dollar into the bucket for cancer research seems like dropping a pebble into a vast and deep abyss.

Of course they want to find a cure and there already have been cures found for some types of cancer. There is no one single cure that will cure all cancers.

Well, I'm going to go with yes on this one. Progress creates opportunities; cynicism curtails opportunities. If a person were in anyway involved with significant cancer breakthroughs he or she would have numerous future opportunities to choose from. Productive jobs will be increased when this 'cure' is found. Believe it or not, the charities are usually legit.

I think they would want to find a cure. I realize that people make their income in these areas, but the skills are transferable to other diseases or just to being in a leadership position. People who are studying would move into other areas. I don't think that is new.

i think that they do want to find a cure and those ppl who specialize in cancer studies do it mostly b/c they want to help ppl with cancer so they would be happy if there was a cure,sure they might lose their job but they can still do jobs that have to do with cancer.

this research group is looking for a cure and nothing is wasted just like those that were looking for a cure for polio....they will move on to the next disease to cure...http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/