Why does the US spend massive and massive about of money on cancer research compared to Japan, South Korea, Singapore, China and Taiwan?

[shockedcanadian]

Operations to postpone the inevitable and drugs that slow or control some cancers improve, curing cancer just never seems to get there.

Yeah, it would be the highlight of any nations contribution to the world if a cure can be found

 

[initforme]

America is the land of cancer thanks to corporations.

 

[Parker99]

Financial greed. Whoever can develop a cure for cancer, it's likely that person/company will screw cancer patients for as much money as they can. Maybe the % reflects where the most greedy lies.

So there lots of money to be made of cancer treatment and drugs but you just don’t see countries like South Korea, Japan and China spending much of money into cancer research.

 

[Captain Caveman]

So there lots of money to be made of cancer treatment and drugs but you just don’t see countries like South Korea, Japan and China spending much of money into cancer research.

As I said -

Maybe the % reflects where the most greedy lies

So not much greed in the low percentage countries !!

 

[Parker99]

Other thing is lot of other countries healthcare is way cheaper than the US. Where the US is most expensive in the world and per GDP the US spends most on healthcare despite out control healthcare cost and no state run healthcare. This may be big incentive for profit treatment in the US.

Where countries like South Korea, Japan and China healthcare may be dirt cheap there and doctors get paid less than what they would be working in the US so is scientist there working getting way less than what they would working in the US and so this may be why the government spends so little money if doctors and scientist don’t get much money and chemotherapy is really cheap there.

There may not lot of money to be made there per profit so there is less of incentive for treatment or research.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

So there lots of money to be made of cancer treatment and drugs but you just don’t see countries like South Korea, Japan and China spending much of money into cancer research.

Because the US does the research and then that research is stolen by intellectual property thieves.

 

[Parker99]

If you look this in China yuan cancer treatment cost it is yuan 21,000 for bladder cancer and yuan 39,527 for lung cancer and yuan 33,376 for stomach cancer.

That is yuan 21,000 is $2,863.95 and yuan 39,527 is $5,390.64 and yuan 33,376 is $4,551.77.

So if you covert much cheaper in US dollars and the most expensive lung cancer.

Average costs for cancer treatments in public hospitals in China in 2021, by type of cancer​

So if you look at that in China they not making much money of cancer treatment. Where in the US it like three times of buying car or more.

 

[ninja007]

yep

 

[Parker99]

yep

Why is mainstream news not talking about this? The upcoming cancer pandemic?

 

[Blisterfinger]

If you look at this https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(23)00182-1/fulltext

Well than China is 4%, Japan is 4%, UK is 9%, USA is whopping 57%


So not sure why the US is so high compared to other countries and why those countries are so low.

According to this, the US accounts for more than half of recent cancer funding, with China and Japan just under 5%

Global Funding for Cancer Research: 2016–2020

In a study reported in The Lancet Oncology, McIntosh et al identified components of global funding for cancer research—both public and philanthropic—between 2016 and 2020.

ascopost.com

That is so odd I wonder if the reason the US spends so much more money on cancer research is because the lobbyist is so much more massive in the US the pharmaceutical companies and universities are so massive in the US and are lobbying the government to spend money on cancer research.

Where those other countries only have a handful of pharmaceutical companies and universities unlike the US that has hundreds of pharmaceutical companies and universities.

But again some one could ask why those countries have only handful of pharmaceutical companies and universities?

Didn't the idiot Biden promise to cure cancer during his administration?

 

[Parker99]

Didn't the idiot Biden promise to cure cancer during his administration?

Where did he say that?