According to [1], the amount of money invested in research in Europe and in the US seems to be of the same magnitude. And it makes sense to me to claim that the

According to [1], the amount of money invested in research in Europe and in the US seems to be of the same magnitude. And it makes sense to me to claim that the "drugs are created in the US" to prove your point. When you have developed a treatment, you can sell it worldwide, thus making profit worldwide to pay for the development/future developments. Not to mention that France has some very edgy teams working on cancer treatments, such as for leukemia at Hopital Saint Louis in Paris or for various cancers at Hopital Paul Brousse and Institut Gustave Roussy in Villejuif (for instance they are sort of world leader on chronotherapy of cancers, team of Pr. Francis Levi) [1] http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1311068 http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1311068