[rmtech]

That's not an answer to the question that was asked.

Some people might not want to help animals or people in the third world, they might specifically want to help cancer patients.

Furthermore if someone is looking for the most important thing to work on, it almost certainly isn't animals or third world poverty, though it also probably isn't cancer either (unless they have an unusually efficient way to help), because cancer is basically the least neglected cause in the world, as well as being highly intractable.

If you want something a lot more impactful than working on either of these things you have to think outside the box, do something that few others are working on and that could have a large impact in a way that is not well-known.

[gus_massa]

> as well as being highly intractable.

It varies a lot with the type of cancer, how fast it grows, how advanced it is, and a thousand of additional factors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_survival_rates

Cancer is not a single illness, but a family of related illnesses, the main problem is that we don't have a different street name for each one.

Imagine viral infections. What is the survival rate for viral infections? It can be a common cold, or Ebola, or somethin in between.

[rmtech]

Cancer is a group of illnesses that share a key common trait of uncontrollably dividing cells.

But when I say intractable I mean that the amount of output in lives you get per dollar of input is small compared to other issues that you can help with.