Former NCI director: Obesity-related cancers, ‘pandemic hangover’ are major challenges

SAN FRANCISCO — The newly reignited Cancer Moonshot is centered on the goal to reduce cancer deaths by 50% over the next 25 years.
The oncology community must overcome several formidable challenges if that objective will be met, according to former NCI director Norman E. "Ned" Sharpless, MD.
“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

SAN FRANCISCO — The newly reignited Cancer Moonshot is centered on the goal to reduce cancer deaths by 50% over the next 25 years.
The oncology community must overcome several formidable challenges if that objective will be met, according to former NCI director Norman E. «Ned» Sharpless, MD.
“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