There are serious problems with the economics of drug development and production. But to claim that cancer researchers and pharma don’t want to cure cancer is disingenuous. They have been doing a pretty good job over the last twenty years. Specifically, death rates have dropped by more than 30% for colorectal cancer, breast cancer in women, and lung cancer in men, and by more than 40% for prostate cancer. Those are real, dramatic reductions in cancer deaths and are mostly attributed to two things - reduced smoking and BETTER TREATMENTS.
I made no claims about either one. It was the American Cancer Society that my barb was aimed at.