The first cancer research enterprise in the UK was founded in 1902 and another in 1923 – 200 years of fundraising between them.
In 2013, Cancer Research UK collected £535m. It has an administration staff of 3,845 whose salary/pension bill is £130m per annum.
That means that if a Race for Lifer raised £100 in sponsorship it would keep the office staff going for 25 seconds.
It is reckoned that by 2050 every single British citizen will have some form of cancer.
So, there has been the torturing and killing of hundreds and hundreds of millions of laboratory animals, all in vain.
Regarding the illusive are the public still does not realise that nothing is likely to happen, no progress ever likely or even possible while research is carried out on demonstrably wrong lies.
The most trusting pundit must, at some stage, dare to question the validity of all this.
PHILLIP DUCKWORTH
Hillside Road Whyteleafe
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