“Cure” and “Cancer” seem to appear together in mainstream reports these days only when lowering expectations or hedging bets. Health reports typically indicate either that trials of new treatments have failed or that they may show a narrow zone of promise.

In its heyday, though, the idea that we were "on the verge of the cure" within a generation was seen as an imperative, fueling federal policy and money allocation. It greased government spending on the school system despite families increasingly finding government schools of no advantage to bringing out the best in their children.

Per the motto, "Curiosity creates cures," spending flowed readily into biomedical experimentation. Many grants were legislated, and we were always "only a generation away" from being cancer-free.

Data from Harvard, the National Vital Statistics System, and other sources pour water on the hopes behind pink ribbons. Cancer is increasing at younger ages, and is catching up to heart disease as the number one cause of death.

Public faith in scientific institutions is at a low, coming off their exploitation of emergency rule. Cancer remains since 1933 one of the two leading causes of death in the U.S.A., and this country is one of the five highest in the world in cancer incidence. Americans’ lifespans fell last year to 1990s levels. Even the Biden White House was forced to call its own 2022 funding for cancer biomedical research a “moonshot.”

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