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Article: A case for more public funding of cancer research in Europe, which lags USA.
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- Pharma Marketletter
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- August 21, 2006
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There is inadequate public funding of cancer research when this is set against the actual burden of the disease in Europe, and compared with the USA, according to a major pan-European survery published in PLoS Medicine, a peer-reviewed, open-access journal of the Public Library of Science.
The European Cancer Research Funding Survey found that, across the European Union, the average public spending on cancer research was 2.56 euros ($3.30) per person, compared with 17.63 euros per person in the USA. As a percentage of Gross Domestic Product, the USA paid four times more on cancer research than the average in Europe.
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