Today's cancer researchers: job description and employment outlook

In the war on cancer, the front line troops may well be the physicians and the other medical staff treating patients, but the reconnaissance patrols in this war, whose job it is to gather information about the enemy, vital to planning and conducting operations, are the cancer researchers.

Of course we have always known that they are there, working in their labs, conducting their experiments, involved in clinical trials, evaluating new drugs, publishing findings in journals that assist other researchers. And although most of them get little attention, there is no doubt that these jobs that they do are vital.

So what does it take to become a cancer researcher, one of the people toiling away in those labs, adding to the knowledge that we have of cancer, and possibly, just possibly, becoming involved in an important discovery that may result in a significant advance in this war against this beast?

Here is a brief article that gives a general job description, lists educational requirements, and current employment prospects:

www.becomeopedia.com/how-to/become-a-cancer-researcher.php

And here is even an example of some online "want ads" for cancer researchers looking for work:

jobs.sciencecareers.org/jobs/cancer-research/

Let's do remember just how important, if often unsung, these people really are.