If you were given the cure for all cancers would you

[Doctor Amadeus]

Sell it or give it away for free?

[Deleted]

Sell it or give it away for free.

Sell it for a reasonable price. Like $500 per treatment.
That way everyone can use it, and i get rich in the process.

[Spectral]

Is there anything to cause scarcity of supply? Cost to manufacture, limited availability of resources, anything at all?

[The One Percent]

Everyone who says they will give it away for free are full of shit.

[tj119]

Sell it. Cheap, but definitely sell it.

[Deleted]

I would consider charging, however I would give it away for free 100%

Besides think of the Publicity of the person who *CRACKED CANCER!*

Book deals- tv talk shows and so on would be more than enough money

[Mormolyce]

Sell it at a reasonable price, say $100 million.

Wait you mean sell it to people individually? Obviously you'd sell it to a pharmaceutical company.

[zvvl]

I'd definitely ensure that is was available to everyone regardless of socio-economic status. As much as I'd love to make massive profit off it, I don't think I'd be able to live with myself as soon as I saw it being marked up by large pharmaceutical companies.

[zolok2.0]

Sell, I'm a capitalist. But secretly break into hospitals and administer it to patients because I'm not a scumbag

[RyanEX]

Give it away, why the hell is this even a question.

Probably because of all the conspiracy nuts that insist there's already a cure but they're not releasing it to milk sales of drugs.

[Seirith]

Everyone who says they will give it away for free are full of shit.

My mother was diagnosed with cancer in January. I'd give it away free so that no one would need to feel the pain and uncertainty of wondering if their loved one is going to live or die.

[Puri]

Even if you give it away for free you will make a fortune from money people donate to you.

[Templar 331]

Give it away.

1. It's the right thing to do.
2. I'll get a BIG ego boost from it.
3. Money's good, but "more money more problems."

[Radux]

Yup. I'd sell it for a huge amount to a pharma company with the stipulation (legally bound and written and all that jazz) that they sell it for a low price.

[Pull My Finger]

The distribution would be in no way manageable. I would need a world scale organisation to distribute the cure. It couldn't work without money. The problem is that there's not a single financially and infrastructurally powerful enough institution in the world that could be trusted to back the whole project without managing to make the world an even worse place. Which kind of leads me to the realization that if I had a cure for cancer, I'd best be doing nothing with it.

[Famine]

Because of the way the question is worded, I voted give it away. I didn't work for it, I didn't earn it, it was just handed to me.

This doesn't mean I think it's wrong for people/companies who develop drugs, treatments, etc to be compensated for their R&D...which I have a funny feeling is an undertone of the thread.

[AeneasBK]

Sell it at a reasonable price, say $100 million.

Wait you mean sell it to people individually? Obviously you'd sell it to a pharmaceutical company.

I would have figured a reason to not sell it was the concern it might be made unavailable to people for any reason (mainly cost). At least if you are selling it direct (lol don't get me wrong this is in fantasy land already though ) you don't have that potential worry

[Nynax]

my first thought was free...but I'm broke as fuck trying to make it through college....so i'd prolly sell it @ like $1 a pill. I don't need billions (no one does) just enough to get by.

Hell, some drugs are $10,000 a pill, $1 is pretty much free, still would make millions.

[Templar 331]

If you dont exploit it someone else will. Trust me when I say its better off in your hands for an insanely low price a treatment then in the hands of a cooperation.

Funny how people forget what happened to polio.....

[Demoneq]

I would consider charging, however I would give it away for free 100%

Besides think of the Publicity of the person who *CRACKED CANCER!*

Book deals- tv talk shows and so on would be more than enough money

I wouldn't like the publicity personally - so, I'd sell it (to individual people, not a pharmaceutical company), but for reasonable price.
Oh, and patent it, before someone else does (I think there's some sort of patent possible, where others might manufacture it etc, but not patent themselves, not sure - if that's true, I'd consider picking that one).