Research
Today I have been in touch with a friend who is the director of a research institute. I asked him about funding for metastatic breast cancer: if there was 30% of research devoted to metastatic breast...
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There is huge pressure in academia to secure grant funding. Without it, many institutions would be doomed. If the money requires you to do XYZ that's what you do to retain your place. Sad, but true and thus it has always been unless you are lucky enough to find a patron or benefactor who is willing to fund something truely novel.
I don't know that there is much gender discrimination in the research area. B C gets a very sizable amount of money spent on it, much more than prostate cancer ( last time I checked) Appart from the gynae cancers, most of the rest affect both men and women. There is a lot of cross pollination as we are seeing with drugs designed to treat one cancer being trialled for different purposes (that's something I see as very important)
I don't know that there is much gender discrimination in the research area. B C gets a very sizable amount of money spent on it, much more than prostate cancer ( last time I checked) Appart from the gynae cancers, most of the rest affect both men and women. There is a lot of cross pollination as we are seeing with drugs designed to treat one cancer being trialled for different purposes (that's something I see as very important)