Director von Eschenbach Discusses Accelerating NCI’s 2015 Goal by Five Years
Posted by Dusty Weaver on September 26th, 2005
In the July 19, 2005 NCI Cancer Bulletin, National Cancer Institute Director Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach answers an important question posed by Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) during the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor in April: What would it take to accelerate by 5 years the achievement of the 2015 goal of eliminating the suffering and death due to cancer?
NCI has established an ambitious goal of eliminating the suffering and death due to cancer by 2015 by sustaining and integrating progress in the discovery, development, and delivery of more effective interventions based on molecular mechanisms of cancer. Dr. von Eschenbach explains that while the elimination of suffering and death due to cancer may not be fully achievable by 2010, there would be significant progress toward narrowing the gap between 2015 and 2010.
Read the article in the July 19, 2005 edition of the NCI Cancer Bulletin.
