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To: pgkdan
there's no incentive for them to really find a cure for cancer.

Exactly!

Does anyone believe that the American Cancer Society has any vested interest in finding a cure for cancer? No way.

14 posted on 09/23/2015 9:24:43 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Actually, it’s even worse than that. When is the last time you saw a blaring headline about some disease actually being cured? There are lots of headlines about some “promising” line of research that “might” one day lead to a cure, but I can remember exactly ZERO such announcements of a real cure of a real disease. People are staring to catch on so that many medical charities no longer promise a “cure”, but rather your contribution is used for research and “awareness.”


26 posted on 09/23/2015 9:48:27 AM PDT by trenton1776
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

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.


29 posted on 09/23/2015 9:57:40 AM PDT by FBRhawk (Pray with faith, act with courage, never surrender!)
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