If I developed a cure for Cancer would I become super rich and famous?!


Question: If I developed a cure for Cancer would I become super rich and famous?
I honestly don't think so because big pharma makes such a huge profit on all the chemo/radiation/drugs. They would obviously shun a true cure and just call it quakery.

Answers:

Famous in medical circles at least. Super rich no.

Which is why money hungry and fame hungry people of any kind don't set up businesses to create cancer cures or anything else actually useful to society (Can you name the inventors of the TV? The computer? The cell phone? The first person to do an organ transplant? The discoverer of vaccines or the germ theory of disease? How about the guys at you local firehall?)

You want big bucks, you want fame, you go into the entertainment industry (sports, music, acting) or you become an "investment" promoter.

Cancer is not a big money maker for pharmaceutical companies. You see while some drugs are very expensive per treatment, not that many treatments are given because the patient is either cured or dies.

Big phama has developed cures for cancer and they've been successfully used on lots of people. Nine out of ten breast cancer patients survives for example.

The real money machines are heart disease (high cholesterol), depression, ED, male pattern baldness and autoimmune diseases. All the top 10 most profitable drugs are for these much more common and longer duration "conditions".

These diseases can go on for decades and the daily pills or monthly infusions can be really expensive. Think $60,000 per year for life.

That is why the medical industry is so much against the CCSVI treatment (Zamboni procedure) for multiple sclerosis.

You want to be rich and famous? Don't dedicate your life to saving lives. Instead dedicate it to playing football, playing guitar, or acting. Probably everyone employed by big pharma would make more and be more famous if they worked in the entertainment industry.

http://health.howstuffworks.com/medicine/medication/10-most-profitable-drugs1.htm



Actually you'd have great admiration rained upon you if you developed a cancer cure..There really is no such thing as "big pharma" and the quackery is actually quackery. You "read" to much into "conspiracy theories" and must believe everything you read..
Plus, I just really don't foresee that happening so you'd have nothing to worry about in the wealth and honor departments...

had brain cancer



If you discovered a cure, someone would still have to manufacture and market it and it would be worth a fortune. Those big pharma companies would be falling over themselves trying to get you to sign up with them for distribution rights as they would make far more by actually curing people than they do now by treating us.

Cancer "therapy" usually sends you into remission (no more treatment required) or extends your life for a few months or years.

A cure would see you living long enough to use lots more of their products. They could charge as much for this "cure" as they currently do for years of treatment. I know I would be willing to pay for a guaranteed cure!



Negative.. They want a cure just as badly as we do. You know how much the first 100% cure for cancer is going cost? More than you or me would probably ever see. Someone would sell it, we would hear about it, and they would distribute it as prescriptions that would last your while life time, so they would still be making money. Before you think quickly, think a but harder. No one could hide something that big. The media don't take kindly to the government. They would love to spoil their fun.



You're right on that. I think there already are breakthroughs towards a cure but think of all the billions of dollars big pharma would lose? The money is more important then lives to these corporations.



more likely you would be put in prison, have an "accident", or be "suicided".




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