"People have understood how important it is to fight cancer, and thanks to that, we have started to get the first efficient cancer drugs. Unfortunately, this has not been the case with neurodegenerative diseases... The field still suffers from [a lack of] funding, and this is becoming a significant problem in Western societies. We now have about 10-12 million Parkinson's patients, which will double in 20 years. We need to take this very seriously."
"According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the prevalence of the neurodegenerative disease has doubled worldwide since the turn of the century. Parkinson's disease caused 329,000 deaths in 2019, according to the WHO, a 100% increase since 2000. Each data point represents the heartbreaking struggles of people and families living with the diseases, and those realities can be devastating."
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