Does it support SCR or govt funding of SCR??
Yeah, let’s boycott the primary fundraising and awareness charity for blood cancers. It’s not like leukemia research over several decades has been one of several areas at the core of our increased understanding of genes, and of cancer as an entity. It’s not like the search for new treatments for leukemia - a set of cancers, many of which have astoundingly poor prognoses and entail some of the most devastating treatment to have a shot at those chances - has vanguarded new treatments in other cancers, new methodologies, tremendous advances in marrow transplantation and keeping people alive which have bled over into transplantations of all types. It’s not as though the hematopoietic system is mind-bogglingly complex, and the more we unravel about it through research into blood cancers the more we understand how everything in the body works, how cells interact with each other, how cells change each other, how cells of any sort are actually made.
And it’s certainly not like blood cancer incidence rises dramatically with age, just as it’s not like survivors of most other cancers have a significantly increased risk of developing a blood cancer as a result of exposure to their live-saving treatments and having the good luck to survive for several years. (And it’s REALLY not like those survivors of other cancers are most likely to develop acute myeloid leukemia, which has about a 19% 3-year survival rate across all cohorts, or that the type of AML these people develop tends to be among the least responsive to treatment - in a disease that already has a very brief response period.)
Screw that. Those non-profit jerks hedged in the language of a letter about stem cell research!