Millions of people are dying from cancer, and will die at the pace of current research. The argument is that if you turn up the pace, you will kill more people

Millions of people are dying from cancer, and will die at the pace of current research. The argument is that if you turn up the pace, you will kill more people but in the longer term you may save a lot more. You can't predict these numbers though; which is my point. Neither is a very useful argument. There are a lot of improvements that could take place; the moving of more drug research from the US to other countries, for example (that's probably a controversial opinion in itself).