I’m sorry for suggesting you haven’t, my condolences.
Besides the emotional side, AD is more of a single entity than all of cancer, as well as really costly in terms of hospice etc so financially the research is much more viable. The mystery of the mind as well as the state of the art are also a lot easier to get clicks with than “new crazy expensive drug marginally increases the prognosis of one specific type of cancer”, so the latter’s smaller breakthroughs don’t get as much publicity.
Besides the emotional side, AD is more of a single entity than all of cancer, as well as really costly in terms of hospice etc so financially the research is much more viable. The mystery of the mind as well as the state of the art are also a lot easier to get clicks with than “new crazy expensive drug marginally increases the prognosis of one specific type of cancer”, so the latter’s smaller breakthroughs don’t get as much publicity.