Cancer ‘moonshot’ aims to speed fight against No. 2 killer

“For the families that we can still save, let’s make America a country that cures cancer once and for all”, President Obama stated during his address.

KOB Eyewitness News 4 got reaction from Dr. Cheryl Willman, the director in charge of the University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center. Biden had hinted at the plan when he announced late a year ago that he had decided not to run for president.

Most experts believe that one important element of Vice President Biden’s cancer “moonshot” has to be a major database that researchers and clinicians can access to help them develop new therapies or treat patients. Now, Obama is saying the same about efforts to fight cancer.

The National Cancer Institute estimated that almost 600,000 people in the USA died from cancer in 2015.

Fattah serves as a senior Democrat on the House Appropriation Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, which has funding jurisdiction for the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Genetic differences inside tumors help explain why one person’s cancer is more aggressive than another’s, and why certain drugs work for one patient but not the next, especially newer “targeted therapies” that are created to home in on certain characteristics. They describe the state of research around one of the world’s leading causes of death as a golden age, and expect that more funding could lead to many additional breakthroughs.

“The science, data, and research results are trapped in silos, preventing faster progress and greater reach to patients”, Biden said.

“They key for us now is to put a lot more money into research”, Obama said. Positive health behaviors can reduce your cancer risk – quit smoking, lose weight and reducing sun exposure combined with research can move the country closer to a “cure” of sorts, Brawley said. The Society expects that more than 1.6 million in the United States people will be diagnosed with some form of cancer this year alone.

“Once we start with personalized treatment, you’re going to have tons and tons of data, and that data will at some point – probably in the next generation of kids – we’ll be able to say OK, if you have this particular genome, you may not respond to this particular treatment, you probably need a different treatment”.

Moffitt is a leader with precision medicine and immunotherapy, harnessing the immune system to cure cancer. A slow, steady wearing down of the opposition is no less a victory over cancer, he said.

“Cancer is the number one cause of death in Delaware”, Rattay said.

His own efforts through the Fattah Neuroscience Initiative have led to increased coordination of neuroscience activities across more than 12 federal agencies, and spurred advancements in brain imaging and neurotechnology. But he said he thought it was possible to double the rate of scientific advances.