Why does the US spend massive and massive about of money on cancer research compared to south east Asia countries?

[Lilymoon]

Why does the US spend massive and massive about of money on cancer research compared to Japan, South Korea, Singapore, China and Taiwan?

If you look at this https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lano ... 1/fulltext

Well than China is 4%, Japan is 4%, UK is 9%, USA is whopping 57%

So not sure why the US is so high compared to other countries and why those countries are so low.

According to this, the US accounts for more than half of recent cancer funding, with China and Japan just under 5%.

https://ascopost.com/news/june-2023/glo ... 2016-2020/

That is so odd I wonder if the reason the US spends so much more money on cancer research is because the lobbyist is so much more massive in the US the pharmaceutical companies and universities are so massive in the US and are lobbying the government to spend money on cancer research.

Where those other countries only have a handful of pharmaceutical companies and universities unlike the US that has hundreds of pharmaceutical companies and universities.

But again some one could ask why those countries have only handful of pharmaceutical companies and universities?

[weatheriscool]

America has a mindset that values science. Not sure about this under Trump but for the past 120 years this has been the case...South Asian countries are poor and backwards. They don't have the educational level or wish to spend great wheel burials of money on such researchs. Too busy keeping roof over head and samwitch in mouth.

[Vakanai]

I don't know why, but I'm glad for it. The more money spent funding research for this, the fewer deaths from cancer there will be.

[Powers]

Financial center of the world.

[caltrek]

One reason is that the cancer rates for these other countries are significantly lower than for the United States.

Q: What are the cancer rates in Japan, South Korea, Singapore, China and Taiwan in comparison to the United States?

Bing Co-pilot: Here's a comparison of cancer rates (age-standardized rates per 100,000 people) in Japan, South Korea, Singapore, China, Taiwan, and the United States:
Country Cancer Rate
Japan 267.1
South Korea 234.7
Singapore 231.1
China 201.6
Taiwan 199.7
United States 367.0

As you can see, the United States has a significantly higher cancer rate compared to the other countries listed. Japan also has a relatively high rate compared to its neighbors in Asia.

The cancer rates…mentioned come from the World Population Review and Wikipedia. You can find more detailed information and the full list of cancer rates by country on their respective websites:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/count ... by-country

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ ... ncer_rate