5/19/11

How can we make curing cancer a global priority?


How can we make curing cancer a global priority?
When I was ten years old, my younger brother Jeff died of leukemia.

Cancer kills 7 million people worldwide each year. Yet it is a treatable disease that—in time—is beatable. However, in today's troubled global environment, valuable resources that would otherwise go to cancer research are frequently re-directed by the crisis du jour.

What can we, as individuals and as a global community, do to focus & mobilize our governments to find the cures that will make cancer a fear of the past?

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- Isiah Weaver
Well, considering that volume 284, July 26, 2000 of the JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) List the three top causes of death as Heart Disease, Cancer and prescribed pharmaceuticals, treatments and surgeries, I would say that we have a real tough issue on our hands. 1971, cancer was the number 8 killer, now its number 2. Methods of treatment haven't changed since then, either. Surgery, radiation or chemotherapy. How many died from the treatment before they would have died from the condition? So, it's time for academia to get out of its box and find out why we're having all of these conditions when they didn't exist, to this extent, 50 years ago.

- Waytootiny
I think treatment of cancer in young people should be more of the focus. I mean good treatments with little or no long term side effects like wiping out the heart and lungs. Totally eliminating it just isn't possible.

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