Are We Wasting Billions Seeking a Cure for Cancer? More than 40 years after Nixon launched the war on cancer, we are not much closer to curing the disease. Why? Because finding a cure is the wrong goal, says doctor Margaret Cuomo

More than 40 years after Nixon launched the war on cancer, we are not much closer to curing the disease. Because finding a cure is the wrong goal, says doctor Margaret Cuomo. [...]we know much more about the disease than we once did, but we are not much closer to curing it.

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Published inThe Daily Beast
Main Author Cuomo, Margaret I
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York The Newsweek/Daily Beast Company LLC 02.10.2012
Subjects
Alzheimer's disease
Biomedical research
Breast cancer
Cancer therapies
Health care
Medical research
Public health
Vaccines
United States > US
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Summary:More than 40 years after Nixon launched the war on cancer, we are not much closer to curing the disease. Because finding a cure is the wrong goal, says doctor Margaret Cuomo. [...]we know much more about the disease than we once did, but we are not much closer to curing it.
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