Figure 4

Funding versus years of life lost (YLL) in the United Kingdom versus the United States. Presents the research funding to YLL ratios for the United Kingdom data in Table 3 on the Y-axis compared to a recent report of the same cancer types for the United States [10] on the X-axis. Both data analyses are based on 2010 values. The dashed vertical and horizontal lines indicate points at which proportional funding is equal to proportional YLL. The dotted diagonal line indicates identical discrepancies in both countries. Italicized labels are used to describe six zones within the figure that represent different combinations of funding discrepancies. There is a generally similar pattern of ratios although testicular cancer and leukaemia represent outliers in which they are overfunded in both countries, but to a much higher degree in the United Kingdom than in the United States.