Although general cancer research received roughly 3x more funding. Blood cancers aren’t far behind breast cancer in funding ($2.7b breast and $2.3b blood).
Fwiw, more research into any kind of treatment for breast cancer besides “slash and burn and poison” will continue to lead to improving treatments for other cancers, to the benefit of children and men as well.
Here’s a pretty good summary of how we got from “unspeakable and incurable,” past “initial biopsy and radical mastectomy in one operation,” to a place where breast cancer research is finally well-funded :
Cancer is a really broad cause of death. The cancer that has arguably the best funded research is breast cancer, which mostly affects women.
Although general cancer research received roughly 3x more funding. Blood cancers aren’t far behind breast cancer in funding ($2.7b breast and $2.3b blood).
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(23)00182-1/fulltext
Fwiw, more research into any kind of treatment for breast cancer besides “slash and burn and poison” will continue to lead to improving treatments for other cancers, to the benefit of children and men as well.
Here’s a pretty good summary of how we got from “unspeakable and incurable,” past “initial biopsy and radical mastectomy in one operation,” to a place where breast cancer research is finally well-funded :
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3298674/
Sure, researching better treatments for breast cancer can lead to better treatments for other cancers, but then that’s also true for the inverse.