“Despite progress of lives extended and lives saved, cancer is still the number 2 cause of death in America,” she said. “We lose more than 600,000 Americans a year to cancer, and 1.8 million families each year are devastated by a cancer diagnosis.”But many issues remain. “We have stark inequities in access to diagnosis, access to treatments and trials, and inequities in outcomes,” Carnival said. “We know too little about how to target treatments to the right patients,” she said and too many cancers lack good strategies for developing treatments, including childhood cancers. Addressing this list—tackling the medical, financial, and emotional burdens of cancer by providing support throughout diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship—represents a “shared agenda” for Moonshot 2.0, Carnival said.

Source: New York Times September 21, 2022 20:08 UTC