If the rate is 100%, then It is $50,000 Billion dollars saving or the actual spending on cancer treatment/management is 50 trillion dollars a year in the US. Wow, sure?
As NIH Funding Shrinks, Mass. Biomedical Researchers Compete For Fewer Grants
http://www.wbur.org/2013/05/28/sequester-nih-research-massThe interesting point is that the corroboration becomes competition in science.