Expert calls for new cancer research priorities

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Mon, 09/21/2009 - 22:00

(ECCO-the European CanCer Organisation) Cancer research is too focused on new drug development, while not enough money and effort is being devoted to pursuing important advances in knowledge likely to have the biggest impact on combating the disease in the next few decades, a leading research policy expert says, adding that a major shift in research priorities will be crucial to the ability to cope with the coming wave of cancer cases.

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