National Cancer Moonshot Report

Cancer is a major issue in our country today due to it having no cure, and it’s one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. I’ve been personally affected by this tragic disease by losing my uncle to colorectal cancer at the age of twelve. This disease has caused significant losses of life; therefore, it is my goal to join a team that has as its objective to finding a cure for cancer. Specifically, I will become a physician in order to become a part of the solution to cancer.

Over 1,665,540 people were diagnosed and 585,720 people died from cancer in 2014 (“Cancer Facts”). Cancer will eventually take over because there is no cure. Many people have devoted their entire lives to finding a cure for cancer. Billions of dollars have been put into research. Unfortunately, most people have come up short in finding a definite way of curing cancer. Cancer has many different treatments that vary out of these main treatments: chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery. The main treatments and cancer research are not able to keep up with the increase in cancer incidents in the human population.

My father always tells me “In order to make life beautiful, never stop learning and helping.” I have always tried to follow his advice and thus have become a content individual. The Clinical Oncology Open Learning (COOL) Scholars Program is a method for me to follow his advice. Cancer is one of the fastest evolving diseases in medicine. Every week there is either a breakthrough in the study of cancer or there are minor cures discovered. As I have read, there is more energy invested in curing cancer than there is in preventing. Through the COOL program, I will be able to learn the causes of cancer, which will teach me how to prevent it in the first place. In addition, I will be able to learn the nature of cancer and how cancer cells spread in the body. The COOL program will also teach me the basic treatments for cancer and how the treatments work inside one’s body. This will allow me to connect

MD Anderson is the top cancer center in the country. Houston and surrounding communities recognize MD Anderson for their outstanding cancer research. The hospital’s mission is to “eliminate cancer in Texas, the nation, and the world through outstanding programs that integrate patient care, research and prevention, and through education for undergraduate and graduate students, trainees, professionals, employees and the public” (About us, 2015).

The BRAIN Initiative is a huge topic in the neuroscience field, and although the president of the United States gave a speech on the topic, the public is not well informed about it. The name of the project gives away the purpose of the project, but the public has limited information on the on it, unless they do some sort of research. The BRAIN Initiative is either recognized by its name or the acronym for the word BRAIN. Referring to the initiative as “Moonshot” could be either helpful or non-helpful to the display of the project.

They have been going since 1902 and along the way they’ve achieved a long list of firsts. Now they’re pushing well into the future – developing newer, kinder treatments, getting closer to cures. They fund over half of the UK’s cancer research, including the

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Barbara Ehrenreich, Audre Lorde, and Meri Nana-Ama Danquah’s illness narratives do more than recount stories of illness. The narratives depict resistance to normalization or becoming normate by making visible the larger structural inequities. The narratives are showing how the systems that are supposed to aid and heal those who are ill, but are actually reinforcing the inequities.

Continuing the support of the agency National Institutes of Health by its umbrella The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services supports one of the main goals in their strategic plan, Advance Scientific Knowledge and Innovation. "When health is absent Wisdom cannot reveal itself, Art cannot become manifest, Strength cannot be exerted, Wealth is useless and Reason is powerless." (Herophilies, 300 B.C.)

HHS is required to review financial conflict of interest policies and regulations. Within one year, the director of OMB must create an advisory committee to provide the Federal Government with information on the effects of regulations related to Federal research requirements. Three of the Obama Administration’s large research endeavor are authorized for $4.8 billion in funding from the Cures Act. These endeavors include: Precision Medicine Initiative, the BRAIN Initiative, and President Biden’s Cancer “Moonshot.” These funds must be re-appropriated each fiscal year, by congress. The legislation includes many timeframes; however, it may be years before it is fully implemented. There are some who do not like this law. Public Citizen and Senator Elizabeth Warren believe the Cures Act will weaken the FDA oversight of drugs and devices, which could result in a threat to the public’s health. The Cures Act encompasses more aspects.

I agree it was smart to take action against her breast cancer quickly before it took her away just as her mother had. I'm glad she wrote about her fight against it and wants to encourage other women to seek help and make their own decision of what they want to do. After reading "Hopeful Glimmers in Long War on Cancer" there's still hope for people with cancer and by now there might be more information about it so there's more choices to make for

Many doctors, physicians, researchers and biotech companies--including the revolutionary Seattle Genetics research facility--are now turning to antibody-assisted cancer treatments and precisely targeted cures instead of treating cancer with a cocktail of chemicals and radiation that generate risky side effects and damage the healthy tissue that patients need to recover. Cancers are among the most frightening and difficult-to-treat illnesses. Ranked as the leading cause of death and disability, cancer is actually an umbrella term that covers many different diseases. Each person faces a unique disease because cancers interact with the body's existing cells, so each case has a

Martin Luther King, Jr. once said “We have guided missiles but misguided men.” This is the current state of the United States Congress when it comes to funding the National Institute of Health (NIH). We spend over half of a trillion dollars to protect ourselves from the extraordinary unlikelihood of a terrorist attack but only $32 billion on biomedical research that can indefinitely save millions of lives. It’s perplexing that we have been all the way to the moon and back but still have not the slightest idea of how to effectively treat diseases like cancer that ravage their way through our bodies. We are looking to protect ourselves from existential threats that are not nearly as great as they seem while every year more and more loved ones

In today's world, we have very advanced technology. There have been many new technological and medical advancements as we entered the new century. The Internet allows us to shop, talk, and find valuable information on very scarce topics, and even check stocks with a simple click of a button. Medical advancements had recently been discovered on "The Human Genome Projects," the first gene was mapped and within a short period of time we will have mapped out all the genes in a human chromosome. This is absolutely amazing because we will now be able to reveal the many causes of serious deadly diseases. Throughout the years, we have gained the technology to send astronauts into space to gather new information about our