Good news on the cancer front, just not for America

[Walt]

Cervical cancer is down by 90% among the first cohort that got the vaccine in the UK. US numbers are a lot more abysmal.

Cervical cancer is one of the most common cancers in women. Almost all cases are the delayed side-effect of infection with the human papillomavirus (HPV), a bug. In 2008 Britain began offering a newly developed HPV vaccine to teenage girls. A decade and a half later, rates of cervical cancer among women in their 20s are down by 90%, and British health officials talk of virtually eradicating cervical cancer by 2040.

The USA is cutting cancer research, but Europe and China will step up and take our place. The cures will still be developed, just by Europeans and the Chinese. I am sure they will sell the cures to us, at a steep profit. Throw in trump's promised 300% tariff on drugs, and it is going to cost dearly.

Don't worry, trump is sure that the rich will still get the life saving treatments.

the Trump administration is planning steep cuts to the National Cancer Institute—setting back the science and putting off a generation of researchers. But costs will fall, treatments will find their way to market and work goes on in Europe and China, which this year overtook America as the main source of cancer research.

The world is winning the war on cancer

Progress has been remarkable. Death rates are down substantially, and are likely to fall further

www.economist.com