I'd prefer taking a pill every day ...
I would, too, rather than die prematurely.
But a friend of mine, a former nurse, said that she no longer will
support cancer research projects. The reason she told me is that she
feels the principles in the projects that come to her are now looking
more for chronic cures than full cures. (A chronic cure means taking
a pill every day and that if you stop, you die prematurely; a full
cure means you do not have the illness any more.)
She said that in the old days, doctors looked to cure disease and she
still does.
I do not know enough about health research institutions to know if she
is right. Her argument is that the principle researchers now are
motivated to search more for chronic than full cures. (Obviously, for
PR purposes, large profit-oriented organizations should also provide
some full cures, but its directors can only fulfill their legal
obligations in the US if they mainly provide chronic cures.)
This is a goverance issue, since there are various ways of funding the
discovery, research, animal, human safety sequence which (expensively)
whittles a thousand possibilities down to one approved pill.
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