FLICKR, MARC NOZELL
A panel of scientific experts assembled to advise Vice President Joe Biden’s National Cancer Moonshot issued 10 recommendations this week (September 7) on how to accomplish the initiative’s goal of accelerating cancer research and breaking down barriers to progress. The panel recommended expanding research into immunotherapy and drug resistance, mining patient data to predict therapy outcomes, and boosting data sharing through national cancer databases. The report also emphasized the need for wider implementation of prevention strategies, including “tobacco control, colorectal cancer screening, and HPV vaccination.”
Taken together, these recommendations articulate a “vision for the future of cancer research” that emphasizes collaboration between researchers and technological innovation, the panelists wrote.
Vice President Biden suggested the Moonshot last year, following the death of his son Beau to ...
