Government Cancer Research Spending Shrinks
Government spending on research always goes up, right? Wrong. Recent figures shows research spending by the National Cancer Institute will continue to go down - Click here for the details.
The budget crunch from a war and other fiscal programs shows up in many places. The NCI is the government’s main cancer research resource. You can debate the pros and cons of government direction, but as the U.S. government found during Vietnam, it can’t be money for both guns and butter. It’s usually a choice of one or the other. Spending on research can - and does - go down.
