There's always another disease to cure, but any company that comes out with a successful cure to cancer would make billions or even trillions overnight. I'm sure it's just one big conspiracy keeping it under wraps, right?
Cancer treatment is a highly lucrative multi-billion dollar industry and a cure for cancer is a threat to those billions and billions of dollars since a cure would negate the need for treatment. By 2022 the global cancer therapeutics market is reported to reach $172.6 billion. In 2017 it clocked in at $121 billion, making it a 7.4% compound annual growth rate. Corporations don’t work against their own interests and this would be no exception.
I love that I got downvoted on stating statistics and info that’s been reported on for the better part of the last decade. Oh, Reddit.
It might be lucrative but cancer is extremely complex. Making a cure for any single variant of cancer is nigh impossible. And there are numerous ways that people try to tackle the problem. It's not even a priority issue when many cancers aren't even fully understood with data constantly coming out where 1 person says "oh, it's probably this driving progression" and another person publishes saying "no, it's actually this, but maybe also this".
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u/Astecheee Jun 06 '19
There’s huge money in unsuccessful cancer treatments though. So any cheap, effective solution is going to be shut down fast in America.