The “Moon Shots Program” has been launched as part of an aggressive drive to convert the scientific discoveries related to eight major cancers into clinical advances that reduce mortality, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center announced.
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“Generations later, the Moon Shots Program signals our confidence that the path to curing cancer is in clearer sight than at any other time in history. Humanity urgently needs bold action to defeat cancer. I believe that we have many of the tools we need to pick the fight of the 21st century. Let’s focus our energies on approaching cancer comprehensively and systematically, with the precision of an engineer, always asking … ‘What can we do to directly impact patients?'”
- triple-negative breast and ovarian cancers – these two cancers are linked at the molecular level
- prostate cancer
- melanoma
- lung cancer
- chronic lymphocytic leukemia
- acute myeloid leukemia/myelodysplastic syndrome