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> with vastly larger resources In a limited US-centric look, it seems like the resources are at about the same level, with funding for cancer at ~$5.6 billion
by hobofan 6y ago
> with vastly larger resources
In a limited US-centric look, it seems like the resources are at about the same level, with funding for cancer at ~$5.6 billion for the NCI[0], and ~3.6 billion for COVID19[1] (in June, not sure if more funding has been approved since).
Not sure what metric you want to consider for cancer survival, but the rough trend in 5-year cancer survival seems to be in the ballpark of improving between 0.25-1% yearly (until 2013)[2].
[0]: https://www.cancer.gov/about-nci/budget/fact-book/data/research-funding https://www.cancer.gov/about-nci/budget/fact-book/data/resea...
[1]: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/nih-grapples-researchers-rush-claim-billions-pandemic-research-funds https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/nih-grapples-researc...
[2]: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/five-year-cancer-survival-rates-by-sex-and-race?time=1963..2013 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/five-year-cancer-survival...
- yread 6y agoNCI is not the only place working on cancer, all the top universities and hospitals have huge departments working on it
- hobofan 6y agoHow many of the grants for the research groups/hospitals at the universities come from NCI though? If you have a more complete number, I'd be happy to hear it, but from what I can gather, the bulk of cancer research funding goes through NCI.
- yread 6y agoI've found this: 100B in 2015 (worldwide). It probably didn't go down since then www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2015/05/05/global-cancer-spending-reaches-100b
- hobofan 6y agoThat's cancer _treatment_, not cancer _research_, which is a whole different ballpark.
- yread 6y agoAh yes, you're right. I just couldn't believe the number is that low since it looks so big from the inside (AACR had like 100k attendees). Especially when you compare this number to tech acquisitions...