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|Articles|April 4, 2016

Disease Interception and the US National Cancer Moonshot

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In the US, patients, caregivers and advocates, drug developers and the FDA have moved towards a patient-centered approach to drug development. The National Cancer Moonshot, a task force led by Vice President Joseph Biden, includes this patient-centric strategy in its agenda: Seeking to facilitate collaborations with researchers, doctors, philanthropies, patients, patient advocates, and biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies to accelerate the early detection and treatment of cancer, its goal is a decade’s worth of advances in five years.

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