SAN FRANCISCO — The newly reignited Cancer Moonshot is centered on the goal to reduce cancer deaths by 50% over the next 25 years.
Norman E. “Ned” Sharpless MD, former director of the NCI, said that the oncology community must overcome many formidable obstacles to achieve their objective.
“Cancer mortality is declining everywhere in the United States in a fairly robust way over the past 3 decades, on the order of a 1.5% decline per year,” Sharpless said during a keynote address at ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium. “That’s about a 30% decline over the last 25
