Cancer is a disease as old as recorded history, and yet modern science still hasn’t managed to cure it.
There’s certainly a huge incentive to find a cure. Cancer has been a leading cause of death worldwide for decades. In the United States and other industrialized nations, cancer is second only to heart disease in regard to fatalities, claiming about 600,000 lives a year.
In pursuit of a cure, President Richard Nixon famously declared a “war on cancer” in 1971 with the National Cancer Act. Billions of taxpayer dollars have gone into fighting the disease every year since. Just for 2024 alone, the proposed budget of the National Cancer Institute is $7.8 billion. …