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What will President Obama’s cancer ‘moonshot’ achieve?

09-Apr-2016

Key points from article :

The cancer moonshot is a $1bn (£710m) injection of cash intended to bring a decade’s worth of advances in just five years.

Cancer is the most complex disease that we know of.

Money will fund research into:

– new treatments (e.g. combining treatments and immunotherapy)

– cancer detection using gene technologies

– vaccines

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Cancer Research UK

Independent cancer charity focused on saving lives through research, influence and information

Nic Jones

Chief Scientist, Cancer Research UK at University of Manchester.

Thomas Tucker

Professor in Department of Epidemiology at the University of Kentucky.

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Cancer