That is exactly what we as informed patients must do. We must educate ourselves through articles, books, and the internet itself to find out where that money is. When our doctor tells us we need chemotherapy, we must find out for ourselves the consequences of such a decision. We must know how cancer grows, and what can make it stop. And we must pass this information and all of our experiences surrounding cancer onto the next generation, to help them prepare themselves for the future.
Patients are consumers in every sense of the word.
But there is a very stiff warning which must underline any quest for truth, and that is how much knowledge can forever change ones life and the way they see things. Once a person sees the truth, there is no way back. And some truths, like the war on cancer, are simply too big to deal with comfortably.