Is anyone really focused on fighting cancer in this country?
by Nick Jacobs
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Brownlee wrote @ August 8th, 2007 at 11:34 pm
Dr. Jacobs’ post hits the nail on the head. An enormous amount of the money we spend on research, detection, and treatment is all aimed at supporting a system that isn’t doing a very good job of either finding cures or making people’s lives better. Yes, we’ve seen some extraordinary cancer treatments, even cures in the last 50 years — childhood leukemia and testicular cancer are the examples that come most readily to mind. But we need a health care, or really a health policy that focuses on a coordinated effort for looking for new treatments, a progarm for preventing cancer, and a medical system that treats patients humanely over the entire course of the disease.
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