The Importance Of Alzheimer's Funding For Cancer

About 1,600 people die from cancer each day. Because cancer takes so many lives per day, it deserves as much funding as, if not more than, Alzheimer’s. The federal government should channel more money toward cancer, lower the death rate of the disease, and help doctors researching cancer to find a cure. Alzheimer's and cancer are two diseases that are very costly to our nation. According to the American Cancer Society, our nation will spend over 216.6 billion treating cancer when Alzheimer’s treatment and other dementia will cost the nation 226 billion. In 2014, there was more money channeled towards Alzheimer’s than cancer, and the funds used to research and cure Alzheimer’s have not cured it yet. Cancer treatments are less expensive than treatments for Alzheimer’s and there is a likelihood for one to become cancer free after treatment. The funding should be directed toward to cancer since there is a greater chance for an individual to be cured from cancer than from Alzheimer’s. …show more content…
According to the article “10 Most-Known Cancer Statistics for 2014,” 584,881 Americans died from cancer in that year. Some think Alzheimer’s is just as important as cancer and should be funded just as aggressively. However, Alzheimer’s is only the sixth leading cause of death in America, and Alzheimer’s only affects the older generation. Cancer affects all ages of people, not only the elderly. Cancer should be given the same amount of funding rather than channeling it more towards Alzheimer’s due to the fact that more generations will contract cancer than