Opportunities for Achieving the Cancer Moonshot Goal of a 50% Reduction in Cancer Mortality by 2047

Overview

Journal Cancer Discov

Specialty Oncology

Date 2023 Apr 17

PMID 37067240

Authors

Meredith S Shiels

Stanley Lipkowitz

Nicole G Campos

Mark Schiffman

John T Schiller

Neal D Freedman

Amy Berrington de Gonzalez

Affiliations

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Abstract

Significance: We reviewed opportunities to prevent, detect, and treat common cancers, and show that to achieve the Moonshot goal, progress against lung, colorectal, and breast cancer deaths needs to be maintained and/or accelerated, and new strategies for prostate, liver, pancreatic, and other cancers are needed. See related commentary by Bertagnolli et al., p. 1049. This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 1027.

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