One of the most important advances to date is the advent of vaccines that can prevent cancers, including the HPV vaccine, which can prevent cervical and throat cancers. This is the golden age of cancer research – we are experiencing a true revolution.
Ronald A. DePinho, MD Distinguished University Professor and Past President, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Political will is key. If you don’t have the political will to fight cancer and provide services for your own people as a country, it’s very difficult to make things happen.
Her Royal Highness Princess Dina Mired Immediate Past President, Union for International Cancer Control; Patron of SIOP; Honorary President of EORTC; Special Envoy for NCD’s Vital Strategies; Member of WHO Expert Group for the Elimination of Cervical Cancer
As a breast cancer survivor, I did research about what I could do to up my chances of living longer and living better. I started making massive changes in my diet, my exercise routine and my social life. I felt my power come back and I trusted my body again. I’m climbing mountains. I’m running marathons. I have a lot of plans ahead.
Amy Robach Co-Anchor, “GMA3: What You Need to Know” and “20/20;” Reporter, “Good Morning America” and ABC News Platforms
Treating cancer will change in 10 to 15 years. We will target treatment based on the genetic make-up of the tumor and the patients. One size no longer fits all.
Andre Goy, MD Physician-in-Chief of Oncology Services, Hackensack Meridian Health ; Chair, John Theurer Cancer Center; Founding Chair of Oncology, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
With precision medicine and the efforts to utilize molecular mechanisms to design and develop therapeutics, we’ve really taken the field a long way forward.
Cigall Kadoch, PhD Professor, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School; Founder, Foghorn Therapeutics
What I see in the near future, maybe just five years from now, is that we may have a regular blood test that will cost just a few hundred dollars and be able to detect early-stage cancer.
Cristian Tomasetti, PhD Associate Professor, Oncology and Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health
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