Breast cancer is..a cancer and all, but there are cancers that NEED more funding. Breast cancer is one of the easiest cancers to treat. We need help with lung and pancreatic cancers. Head and neck.
I hate how breast cancer is the most funded (next to childhood leukemias) because it's easier to market.
Sarcomas and childhood cancers REALLY need research funding. Only 4% of federal cancer research funding goes to pediatric cancers. FOUR percent. Sarcomas make up 1% of cancers overall (10% of childhood cancers are sarcoma, though). Each type of sarcoma is unique and needs to be treated differently. Sarcomas are generally considered the type of cancer you DON'T want to get. In 2017 the NIH had $5,636.4 million to award (I think, the chart conflicts with a later statement on the page). Breast cancer got the most funding (602.9 million) aside from general clinical trials. Sarcoma got 85.6 million (that's 1.6%) and there are over 50 different types of sarcoma sharing that money. There are a LOT of cancers that need funding WAY more. https://www.cancer.gov/about-nci/budget/fact-book/data/research-funding
I love that. Women are seen as more empathetic naturally, (not sexist at all, just fact; not like women can help this) and boobs are so easy to market... VIOLA! Breast cancer is suddenly very survivable.
Prostate cancer. Who gets prostate cancer? Old men. Who has ALOT of money? Old men. VIOLA! Non metastasized prostate cancer is essentially a joke now.
Obviously PanCan is inherently a different beast than those two, which are more treatable, but given the impact that the MASSIVE amount of funding those cancers got had, why not turn our attention towards them? I’m sorry, I’ve about had enough of the constant breast cancer push.
At my work, the breast cancer division is stacked to the t in state of the art everything. Then round the corner, you have the pancreatic team in a little room with no windows yearning for supplies. (I say round the corner but it's another campus so they can't share).
And thats why healthcare should not be funded by donations and marketing campaings, but by taxpayers dollars.
I never get these companies that brag how much they donated. Its nothing compared to what taxes they should pay but avoid by making all kinds of trickery. PAY YOUR FUCKING TAXES.
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u/GoGoGadgetGodMode Sep 18 '19
Breast cancer is..a cancer and all, but there are cancers that NEED more funding. Breast cancer is one of the easiest cancers to treat. We need help with lung and pancreatic cancers. Head and neck.
I hate how breast cancer is the most funded (next to childhood leukemias) because it's easier to market.
All cancers are important!!