Factors that promote cancer (and other diseases) prevention are what need to receive more focus, and publicity; and in the future will become a much bigger role in health care. These same factors will also become the most effective approach for alleviation of disease.
Research funding, including both government and private sector sources, including the dollars contributed or raised by well-intentioned people and organizations, is heavily weighted toward 'cure' - or just 'treatment', ie, 'management' of chronic illness - rather than prevention; and we have to, and will, as a society challenge why this is so; wherein will lie the only real and lasting solutions to our healthcare costs crisis.
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