MJA Insight: Research doesn’t match cancer burden

"....Professor Young suggested that the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) could prioritise funding for specific cancers. “The NHMRC needs to take a more strategic view as to where they place the funds, and where they create the incentive for specific cancers,” he said.

He said this would encourage researchers to study the underrepresented cancers. “In my view, researchers go to where they can get the money and not necessarily to where the problems are, and I think this paper proves that,” he said...."
  
Dr Annette Katelaris:
"... the National Cancer Institute in the United States is planning to create a “cross-disease panel” that will establish priorities for funding and coordination of clinical trials."

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