They are interested in studying cancer. The difference is huge, and the results are a massive fraud of the masses.
Thomas Edison, if alive today, would be studying the possibility of a light bulb and would still be applying for government grants instead of selling product.
PhD-types are trained to be self-absorbed a$$holes who can't fathom the existence of something they can't understand. This precludes them from being useful towards solving problems such as death by cancer.
OK, so who would be good at "curing cancer?"
Semi-retired lumberjacks? Yourself?