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Can someone with visibility into cancer research please explain if the results being obtained are proportionate to the massive funding the field has received fo
by rebootthesystem 10y ago
Can someone with visibility into cancer research please explain if the results being obtained are proportionate to the massive funding the field has received for decades?
Sometimes I wonder if the bulk of the capital is being wasted. I could be wrong.
I know it's a hard problem.
- dmitriy_ko 10y agoI don't work in this field but here is answer to your question: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1162 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1162
- nonbel 10y agoThat just sounds like a copout. No disease manifests exactly the same way in every person, and there are plenty enough commonalities amongst cancers to justify calling it a single disease.
- dekhn 10y agoMoney spent on cancer research tends to have wide-ranging implications outside of cancer. It produces a ton of understanding about gene regulation, cellular integrity, etc. Personally I would prefer the money not be earmarked for cancer research, but for understanding evolution, growth, and development of organisms composed of cells, in a way that those discoveries led to treatments. But the way it works right now has also had a huge benefit across many non-cancer research areas. I suspect that the amount spent is still far too large for the direct results.