“There must be a cure for cancer … you’re hiding it.” Doctors who spend their lives trying to help people with cancer say it’s heartbreaking when people say this to them. The idea that doctors and cancer researchers are hiding a cure for financial purposes just doesn’t hold up. SurvivorNet medical adviser Dr. Elizabeth Comen points out that cancer affects people from all walks of life, including doctors and their loves ones.
“[The idea that] people at a pharmaceutical company have never had somebody have cancer, or that scientists have never had somebody have cancer, or that wealthy people have never had cancer and died from it … the argument just doesn’t hold up,” Dr. Comen says.
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