3 ms·

Now imagine if we put in a real effort and 50 years turns into 25. Change doesn't happen in the medical field as fast as you think. There's no upward sloping

• est31 7y ago
  A large component of the progress can't be seen because it involves preventing cancer by banning and discouraging carcinogenic materials and practices. People are happy when they can ring that bell but when they never had cancer they take it for granted. Often there is resistance to a ban on things that cause cancer. Sometimes it's justified (needs to be traded off with other things) while other times it isn't. Also, it's not deprioritized like you make it seem. New cancer therapies form one of the biggest fields in medical and biological research.
  • melling 7y ago
    I didn't say it was deprioritized. I said if we increase research we'll gain more knowledge sooner. As a percentage of GDP, most countries probably only spend a few percent.
• endymi0n 7y ago
  A major contributor to the fact of a „no upward sloping curve“ by the way is that the average age of patients is itself an upward sloping curve. It‘s the reason we haven‘t made any apparent progress across a multitude of medical fields (like narcosis deaths and many more) on average. The picture completely changes when adjusting for age.