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For anyone who wants to continue the cancer research funding diversion, here's an interesting article:

 

http://www.nature.com/bjc/journal/v92/n2/full/6602321a.html

 

This is a British article based on British research funding--note that as in the US, there is about twice as much spent on breast cancer research than on prostate cancer research. This article looks at a bunch of different cancers, and compares the money spent on them to the average years lost from the cancer. Interestingly, as I understand the article, it suggests that for both breast cancer and prostate cancer, more is spent than for other cancers when compared to the years lost from cancer deaths--and more is spent for prostate cancer than for breast cancer by this measure. The article suggests that several other cancers, included cervical cancer and melanoma, are significantly underfunded by this measure.

The sad truth is that money for medical research is not distributed through a scheme that tries to maximize benefit, but through a political process.

 

I'd be curious to see if this kind of analysis has been done for US research spending.

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It should also be noted that according to the site Hunt provided 1 in 9 UK women can expect to be diagnosed with BC in her lifetime while in the US it is 1 in 8. In the UK 1 in 14 males can expect to be diagnosed with PC in his lifetime but in the US it is 1 in 6. Maybe we should be studying the UK males to see what they are doing right.

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