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A panel of experts working on the Obama administration's "cancer moonshot" (announced during the President's State of the Union address) recommend a greater focus on immunotherapy. Their report includes these ten summarized recommendations (bonus videos at link):
- Network for direct patient engagement
- Cancer immunotherapy clinical trials network
- Therapeutic target identification to overcome drug resistance
- A national cancer data ecosystem for sharing and analysis
- Fusion oncoproteins in pediatric cancer
- Symptom management research
- Prevention and early detection: implementation of evidence-based approaches
- Retrospective analysis of biospecimens from patients treated with standard of care
- Generation of human tumor atlases
- Development of new enabling cancer technologies
"The goal is to focus investigators into these areas because this is where we feel we can make huge progress in the next five years as opposed to the next 10 years," Berger said. In addition to the 10 scientific approaches that the Blue Ribbon Panel recommended, there are additional special projects. These include a demonstration project to test for Lynch syndrome, a heritable genetic condition that increases risk of several types of cancer, to improve early detection and prevention; the establishment of a nationwide pediatric immunotherapy clinical trials network to enhance the speed with which new immunotherapies can be tested in children; exploring patient-derived organoids; and "microdosing" devices to test drug responses in living tumors.
"It feels like exactly the right time to be launching a big new push against cancer," said Alan Ashworth, PhD, FRS, president of UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. "The report of the Blue Ribbon Panel is bold and imaginative and, if properly funded and implemented, will allow major progress in a considerably accelerated time frame."
Also at The Washington Post and NBC.
Cancer Moonshot Blue Ribbon Panel Report 2016 Draft (72 page PDF)
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Sunday September 11 2016, @05:17AM
I'm totally with you on this, and I admit I did not read the full comment.
While GP is smoking jimsonweed if they think that there's an unlimited demand for medical services (I mean, who goes “I wanna get cancer today!”), the USA does have a backlog of health issues that need to be addressed. I'm wondering how much Obamacare might have eased that.
I do like your proposal about how to handle malpractice. All in all, get the bureaucrats, middlemen, and lawyers out of the fucking way. Then we can look at a reasonable price tag for single payer instead of the WTF trillions of dollars that (paid for) think tank was saying it would cost. Actually thinking back on that, the trillions of dollars thing was a 10 year figure, so that's an additional WTF. Fr33r t3h TRILLIONS! We can't afford single payer! TRILLIONS! Bah.
If a communist “hellhole” like Cuba can fucking do it, why are Americans such pussies about it? I thought America was about how much better than communism it was?