In cancer research, breakthrough ideas don’t get tested without resources. We can’t build on existing knowledge and get to the next treatments and cures for diseases like Li-Fraumeni Syndrome (where p53 mutations are inherited and predispose to a very high risk of various cancers or multiple cancers in younger individuals) if ideas don’t get tested. What’s worse is that great ideas get forgotten. It is important for the US government to invest much more in biomedical research so that ideas or new treatments can help people rather than whither away in a graveyard.