Cancer Meds vs. Prevention

[stevo47]

This week's Healthgate hot topic is a discussion of whether you think the recent breakthroughs in the development of cancer drugs are overshadowing the importance of prevention and education.  If you know you can take a pill to make cancer go away, will you still live a healthy lifestyle?  Do you think others will?  Stop by http://www.delphi.com/hg-alternative and let us know what you think.  -- Steve

[CCF-RN,MSN-JS]

Dear Steve, Recent breakthroughs in the development of cancer drugs have been exciting and hope inspiring.  However, these breakthroughs are still a long way from being  

[stevo47]

I agree that education and prevention should have the same emphasis as medical research, but how do we keep the medical community focused on that when we see all of the newspaper articles talking up the breakthroughs in medicine?  For example, prevention programs take money to administer.  They don't have the possibility of making billions like the one attached to a potential cancer cure.