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MAY 24, 2016

Moonshot or Long Shot? Aiming for a Cure

By Marie Rosenthal, MS

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While major advancements have been made over the past 45 years in combating cancer, an indication of the difficulty of defeating this disease is that once again the President of the United States has launched a major initiative to end cancer.

One Giant Step?

Listening to President Barack Obama talk about the National Cancer Moonshot Initiative, people of a certain age might be taken back to January 1971, when President Richard Nixon announced during his State of the Union