You see the argument for this approach to cancer as being less valid because in addition to making it, I have chosen to act on it? Strange thought process.
I see that the answer to the question of, "Cui bono" is "You".
I don't run this research. It is a non-profit initiative. I have donated myself. I'm persuading other people to do so as well because I think it is a good idea, an important idea, and very necessary for the strategic reasons noted above. The benefit I'm going to get out of it is that my odds of surviving future incidence of cancer increase should it succeed. But then the same is true of everyone else.