August 20, 201412 yr All of this talk I've been hearing about the ALS Ice Bucket Challange got me to thinking: What does the state of medical research funding actually look like right now? I did some digging, and I was able to find this chart from the US Department of Health and Human Services: NIH Categorical Spending -NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (RePORT) I ran through the numbers, did a little additional internet research, and I came up with the following data: 2012 [table=width: 700, class: grid] [tr] [td]Disease[/td] [td]Total $ Spent On Research In The US[/td] [td]Total Deaths In The US *[/td] [td]Total Deaths Worldwide t[/td] [td]Research $ Spent Per Death In US[/td] [td]Research $ Spent Per Death Worldwide[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]ALS (Lou Gherig's Disease)[/td] [td]$44 million[/td] [td]5,000[/td] [td]390,000[/td] [td]$8,800.00[/td] [td]$112.82[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Breast Cancer[/td] [td]$800 million[/td] [td]40,000[/td] [td]588,000[/td] [td]$20,000.00[/td] [td]$1,360.54[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]COPD[/td] [td]$101 million[/td] [td]120,000[/td] [td]2,980,000[/td] [td]$841.67[/td] [td]$33.89[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Lung Cancer[/td] [td]$233 million[/td] [td]159,000[/td] [td]1,370,000[/td] [td]$1,465.41[/td] [td]$170.07[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Malaria / Malaria Vaccine[/td] [td]$192 million[/td] [td]4[/td] [td]627,000[/td] [td]$48,000,000.00[/td] [td]$306.22[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Pancreatic Cancer[/td] [td]$127 million[/td] [td]39,500[/td] [td]330,000[/td] [td]$3,215.19[/td] [td]$384.85[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Prostate Cancer[/td] [td]$257 million[/td] [td]29,100[/td] [td]307,000[/td] [td]$8,831.62[/td] [td]$837.13[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Septicemia / Sepsis[/td] [td]$96 million[/td] [td]210,000[/td] [td]6,000,000+[/td] [td]$457.14[/td] [td]$16.00[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Suicide / Suicide Prevention[/td] [td]$66 million[/td] [td]30,000[/td] [td]800,000[/td] [td]$2,200.00[/td] [td]$82.50[/td] [/tr] [/table] * Statistics were found through the American Cancer Society, the National Heart Lung & Blood Association, the Center for Disease Control, the ALS Association, and Suicide.org t Statistics were found through CancerResearchUK.org, the World Health Organization, Unicef, the Sepsis Alliance, and Suicide.org
August 20, 201412 yr The Komen Foundation fundamentally altered fundraising for medical research. The organization they have and ability to mobilize for fundraising is absolutely massive. That's why breast cancer has such a massive fundraising capability. The Komen foundation has turned it into an important women's issue and tons of women and groups in support of women's causes get behind it.
August 21, 201412 yr Author I, for one, was blown away by the lung cancer numbers. The numbers on malaria also far exceeded my expectations and more than defended my reasoning for buying water-pumps through FoodForThePoor.org as gifts for family and friends.
August 21, 201412 yr Lung cancer and pancreatic cancer are death sentences..... I wonder what the numbers of lung cancer victims are, broken down by smokers vs. non-smokers.
August 21, 201412 yr Author I wonder what the numbers of lung cancer victims are, broken down by smokers vs. non-smokers. That would be interesting to me as well. I'd like to see what happened to the COPD and lung cancer numbers if you pulled out all smokers.
August 22, 201412 yr That would be interesting to me as well. I'd like to see what happened to the COPD and lung cancer numbers if you pulled out all smokers. With very little searching, this article puts the non-smoker percentage at a little over 10% of the total. They say 16,000-24,000 non-smokers die each year due to lung cancer. Why Lung Cancer Strikes Nonsmokers
August 22, 201412 yr Lung cancer and pancreatic cancer are death sentences..... So is Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS) if I'm not mistaken.
August 25, 201412 yr It is no surprise to me that breast cancer has far outrun every other disease for funding. I agree with Getslow, they have done a great job of getting attention to it as a women's disease that affects the family as well. I am surprised prostate cancer funding is as high comparitively as it is. I guess the idea is that COPD and lung cancer are primarily preventable, so let them die??
August 25, 201412 yr It is no surprise to me that breast cancer has far outrun every other disease for funding. I agree with Getslow, they have done a great job of getting attention to it as a women's disease that affects the family as well. I am surprised prostate cancer funding is as high comparitively as it is. I guess the idea is that COPD and lung cancer are primarily preventable, so let them die??[/QUOTE] Kind of a cold way to put it, but I understand your point. I think the sad thing is this...people know that smoking greatly increases your chances of having lung cancer, and yet, still smoke. So, if someone came up with a cure tomorrow for lung cancer, people would still smoke (and probably in even greater numbers).
August 25, 201412 yr All of this talk I've been hearing about the ALS Ice Bucket Challange got me to thinking: What does the state of medical research funding actually look like right now? I did some digging, and I was able to find this chart from the US Department of Health and Human Services: NIH Categorical Spending -NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (RePORT) I ran through the numbers, did a little additional internet research, and I came up with the following data: 2012 [TABLE=class: grid, width: 700] [TR] [TD]Disease[/TD] [TD]Total $ Spent On Research In The US[/TD] [TD]Total Deaths In The US *[/TD] [TD]Total Deaths Worldwide t[/TD] [TD]Research $ Spent Per Death In US[/TD] [TD]Research $ Spent Per Death Worldwide[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]ALS (Lou Gherig's Disease)[/TD] [TD]$44 million[/TD] [TD]5,000[/TD] [TD]390,000[/TD] [TD]$8,800.00[/TD] [TD]$112.82[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Breast Cancer[/TD] [TD]$800 million[/TD] [TD]40,000[/TD] [TD]588,000[/TD] [TD]$20,000.00[/TD] [TD]$1,360.54[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]COPD[/TD] [TD]$101 million[/TD] [TD]120,000[/TD] [TD]2,980,000[/TD] [TD]$841.67[/TD] [TD]$33.89[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Lung Cancer[/TD] [TD]$233 million[/TD] [TD]159,000[/TD] [TD]1,370,000[/TD] [TD]$1,465.41[/TD] [TD]$170.07[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Malaria / Malaria Vaccine[/TD] [TD]$192 million[/TD] [TD]4[/TD] [TD]627,000[/TD] [TD]$48,000,000.00[/TD] [TD]$306.22[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Pancreatic Cancer[/TD] [TD]$127 million[/TD] [TD]39,500[/TD] [TD]330,000[/TD] [TD]$3,215.19[/TD] [TD]$384.85[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Prostate Cancer[/TD] [TD]$257 million[/TD] [TD]29,100[/TD] [TD]307,000[/TD] [TD]$8,831.62[/TD] [TD]$837.13[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Septicemia / Sepsis[/TD] [TD]$96 million[/TD] [TD]210,000[/TD] [TD]6,000,000+[/TD] [TD]$457.14[/TD] [TD]$16.00[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Suicide / Suicide Prevention[/TD] [TD]$66 million[/TD] [TD]30,000[/TD] [TD]800,000[/TD] [TD]$2,200.00[/TD] [TD]$82.50[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] * Statistics were found through the American Cancer Society, the National Heart Lung & Blood Association, the Center for Disease Control, the ALS Association, and Suicide.org t Statistics were found through CancerResearchUK.org, the World Health Organization, Unicef, the Sepsis Alliance, and Suicide.org How would this look if you added the number of people diagnosed each year with each of these?
August 25, 201412 yr It is no surprise to me that breast cancer has far outrun every other disease for funding. I agree with Getslow, they have done a great job of getting attention to it as a women's disease that affects the family as well. I am surprised prostate cancer funding is as high comparitively as it is. I guess the idea is that COPD and lung cancer are primarily preventable, so let them die??[/QUOTE] Kind of a cold way to put it, but I understand your point. I think the sad thing is this...people know that smoking greatly increases your chances of having lung cancer, and yet, still smoke. So, if someone came up with a cure tomorrow for lung cancer, people would still smoke (and probably in even greater numbers). Just so you know...that was posed as a question. :lol2: Personally, I would like to see some of the advertising funds put into curing cancer even if it is deemed to be smoking or environmentally caused. However, I realize that is not so easy.
August 25, 201412 yr It is no surprise to me that breast cancer has far outrun every other disease for funding. I agree with Getslow, they have done a great job of getting attention to it as a women's disease that affects the family as well. I am surprised prostate cancer funding is as high comparitively as it is. I guess the idea is that COPD and lung cancer are primarily preventable, so let them die??[/QUOTE] Kind of a cold way to put it, but I understand your point. I think the sad thing is this...people know that smoking greatly increases your chances of having lung cancer, and yet, still smoke. So, if someone came up with a cure tomorrow for lung cancer, people would still smoke (and probably in even greater numbers). Surprised that HIV funding is not mentioned.
August 25, 201412 yr Author Surprised that HIV funding is not mentioned. I just didn't include that in the chart that I put together in the initial post. Let me check on those numbers....
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