research dollars

Maybe I'm being selfish, but it seems like the only way Marie is benefiting from research is if the medicals find that something appears to work on a particular type of tumor and then they say let's try that and see if it works for you. They do procedures that are generally acceptable for her type of tumor. But when they don't work the medicals really don't know what to do next. We can try this, or we can try that, but it seems like it's just an educated guess. It's not the doctors fault, there is just not much information about this tumor out there. There is no owners manual for this disease. I believe that would come from research. It's such a rare tumor though and doesn't affect that many people. How much money should be spent on that research? My guess is it should be more than is being allocated now.