New Thinking for a New Cancer Moonshot
Scientific advances over the past decade have given us the tools to move from fighting cancerous tumors to identifying and intercepting the biological mechanisms that cause them. The real cancer moonshot required is thus to adapt our mindsets and institutions to this new knowledge.
NEW YORK – US President Joe Biden’s recently announced goal of reducing America’s cancer death rate by half in the next 25 years, with its encouraging emphasis on early detection and prevention, sounds bold. But we can do even more to tackle the disease – and faster.