However, the biggest concern is Switzerland, where there is a pending referendum that may force Roche, Novartis and other companies to conduct at least some of their biomedical research somewhere else. Mycogen argued that Monsanto failed to deliver technology for genetically engineering pest resistance and herbicide resistance into certain types of commercial crop plants. Monsanto, it is claimed, delivered only some of the enabling genetic engineering technology needed to confer resistance. There have been reports of the Russians having developed strains of anthrax that may render the current American and British vaccines useless. Fortunately, melanoma tends to be caught early, so out of the 40,000 plus cases reported annually, a little over 7,000 die, while the other 33,000 survive.
Lymphoma is worse though.
There are reportedly some 55,000 cases annually in the U.S., with about 25,000 dying from the disease. Also, pancreatic cancer is a particularly vicious form. There, only two percent survive. Also, the recent announcement that as many as 4 million Americans are carriers of hepatitis C means there will a considerable increase in liver cancer cases over the next ten years. The growing array of therapies in development suggest this disease may be slowed down.