The AMA Has Lost the War on Cancer Throughout the 1980s, we were spending less than $50 billion per year on cancer. By 2009 the total spent on cancer care, treatment and research exceeded $305 billion per year, according to the British Medical Journal, 28 August 2009. There are now more than 569,000 cancer deaths per year in the U.S., yet all this money has not improved the overall chances of survival from cancer during the past 25 years even … Continue reading →