It's not lack of money at all. How many researchers, worldwide, do you think have the expertise necessary to make a nontrivial contribution?
The problem is we simply don't have the technology to develop a cure for cancer, and we don't even know the precursor technologies we need to develop a cure for cancer.
The problem is we simply don't have the technology to develop a cure for cancer, and we don't even know the precursor technologies we need to develop a cure for cancer.