Alzheimer's Pros And Cons

Cancer Funding In 2014, approximately 584,881 people were reported to have died from cancer in the United States alone. Nearly one in four people are killed by cancer each year. The overall dollars spent for cancer funding is 216.6 billion dollars while Alzheimer’s funding tops cancer at 226 billion dollars. With an increase in funding, cancer research would have more resources to try and find a breakthrough cure. The federal government should not decrease funding for cancer research because there are many different types of cancer and only one type of Alzheimer’s. If the United States government continued funding cancer research at the current or increased rate, the money would be spread out to research more than a hundred different types of cancer.Because there is only one type of Alzheimer’s, some people may want to invest their money into solving this one problem alone. However, solving cancer would eliminate hundreds of thousands of deaths around the world. Society encounters more problems with cancer; therefore, the government should invest more money into the development of more cures and the discovery of better, more beneficial cancer research.

According to the article, “Ten Must-Known Cancer Statistics,” almost 600,000 Americans are expected to die of cancer in 2014. Some people believe that since Alzheimer’s also has a high death rate, that the government should decrease funding for cancer in order to increase funding for Alzheimer’s. Those people say that one might want to invest further in the study of Alzheimer’s in hopes to find a cure; however, cancer already has treatments available and often can be cured. Since researchers do not seem to be close to finding a cure for Alzheimer’s and researchers continue to have success with finding cures for some types of cancer, the federal government should continue funding cancer research at the current