Strategic plan to substantially reduce cancer deaths
16 February 2025
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We have updated the Curing Cancer Network Strategic plan which aims to substantially reduce cancer deaths in the United States from the 618,120 deaths projected for 2025 to 100,000 per year.
This strategic plan is essentially a management plan to use all of the possible treatment and public health approaches that may impact cancer deaths. We will not be successful by focusing on a silver bullet or other miracle treatment that might theoretically solve all of our problems. Instead, success will likely arise from an expanding number of modest improvements with occasional bursts of major advances.
Our specific strategies (more details here ) are:
1. Treatment should target as many individual biological networks as possible that contribute to the cancer itself, directly or indirectly.
2. Successful treatment will likely require combinations of combinations of therapy, each attacking a different aspect of the malignant process.
3. We should initially focus on aggressive cancers that cause the most cancer deaths.
4. We should reduce cancer deaths that occur shortly after diagnosis.
5. We should incorporate therapeutic strategies that delay cancer deaths.
6. We should focus on reducing age related cancer deaths.
7. We should attempt to enroll every patient in a clinical trial so physicians can learn and improve.
8. We should make our prevention programs more effective.
9. We should develop better screening programs for cancers with high mortality.
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