Cancer research funding in Asia

Cancer research funding in Asia.

In inner Mongolia, 4500 people die of cancer, mostly of the liver, per year. But most people in the country bordering China and Russia are dying of cardiovascular disease or infectious diseases and do not reach the age at which cancer becomes common. But in its rapidly developing neighbour, China, cancer is now a leading cause of premature death, killing 1.9 million people, most of them under 7...

Cancer research funding in USA.

Despite the current stability of overall cancer incidence in the USA, for the past 2 years cancer-related deaths have fallen. This gratifying trend, laid out in the American Cancer Society’s Annual Report to the Nation (Howe et al., 2006), has left cancer researchers with the rosy feeling that their hard work is starting to pay off on a grand scale. And, with such obvious evidence of the benefi...

Incorporation of Medical Research and Education in Asia Pacific Region

The goal of medicine is to prevent harm as Hippocrates pointed out; “primum non nocere; first do no harm”. Has this fact been taken into account in developing Medical Education curricula in Asia? Frequency of diseases in Asia is different from high income countries (1, 2) and funds for research are lacking.  It is therefore important to allocate available funds to the most applicable issues to...

Knowledge, Not Funding is the Most Important Research Resource

In the last issue of the Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology, Dr. Reza Afshari raised the question of what are the best scientific areas of focus of toxicology for “low income countries and how such research might be achieved (1). South-south collaboration, in which developing countries share resources, was one of the proposed solutions. Rather than limit discussion to “low income” coun...

What's wrong with the funding of cancer research?