Ironically, one of the forces that push back against that are the much-derided health insurance companies. Health insurance has the exact opposite incentive structure, they prefer a cure over an ongoing treatment.
Also, do you think the owners and executives of pharma companies never get cancer themselves, or never have friends and family with cancer?
In reality the reasons why cures are less common than treatments are complex, it’s not pure evil motivating it. Cures are just hard. Especially for something like cancer, which is not just one single disease but rather an whole vast constellation of different diseases. Some kinds of cancer have been cured, and new cures keep coming out all the time. We just haven’t done them all yet.
I keep telling these people this. Any cure for cancer is going to make it to market because there’s money to be made. If there’s money to be made, somebody is gonna make it, even if it’s not the people making the current treatments who stand to lose out.
plus you can get cancer again anyways, hence no cure. if you go in the rabbit hole of cancers, there are types of the same cancer, and subtypes which may have thier own survival rates. such as breast cancer in men is more aggressive than in women, and men have disporpionate susceptibility to lymphomas over women 2:1, 3:1 in alot of cases.
Hm I wonder why they can’t find a cure for cancer
Cures don’t come with a subscription model.
Ironically, one of the forces that push back against that are the much-derided health insurance companies. Health insurance has the exact opposite incentive structure, they prefer a cure over an ongoing treatment.
Also, do you think the owners and executives of pharma companies never get cancer themselves, or never have friends and family with cancer?
In reality the reasons why cures are less common than treatments are complex, it’s not pure evil motivating it. Cures are just hard. Especially for something like cancer, which is not just one single disease but rather an whole vast constellation of different diseases. Some kinds of cancer have been cured, and new cures keep coming out all the time. We just haven’t done them all yet.
I keep telling these people this. Any cure for cancer is going to make it to market because there’s money to be made. If there’s money to be made, somebody is gonna make it, even if it’s not the people making the current treatments who stand to lose out.
Also the clout for releasing a cancer cure. It would definitely boost the company’s valuation.
There is no such thing as “cancer” there are shit tons of types of cancers caused by shit tons of things.
plus you can get cancer again anyways, hence no cure. if you go in the rabbit hole of cancers, there are types of the same cancer, and subtypes which may have thier own survival rates. such as breast cancer in men is more aggressive than in women, and men have disporpionate susceptibility to lymphomas over women 2:1, 3:1 in alot of cases.