RE:Big Pharma Profit
IF one can seriously use the "cure" word with cancer, it is safe to say that cost is not the factor it is with palliative treatments or meds for lesser conditions. Anyone who doesn't believe that obviously hasn't spent any time around oncology departments.
Check out some of the new "patient specific" drugs in development and how much they will cost...despite in many cases just prolonging your life; not curing the disease.
People who are told they are going to die often do very desperate things. I remember a young jewish man who was interviewed after WW2. It was his job in a concentration camp, as a teenager, to load bodies of other jews into the ovens for cremation. He said, "until you face being killed, you don't know what you would do to live even one more minute."