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摘要

This Report celebrates the many ways we are making research count for patients by turning scientific discoveries into better approaches for preventing, detecting, diagnosing and treating cancer. In the past 12 months alone, we can point to significant progress: continued reduction in the overall cancer death rate; forward strides in cancer prevention, including FDA approval of one new drug for cancer prevention; critical advances in cancer treatment, including eight new drugs for cancer treatment and four new uses of previously approved drugs; and the beginnings of integration of whole-genome sequencing in the clinic, which promises to change the practice of oncology. In addition, scientists at institutions in every single state across the Nation reported a myriad of basic science discoveries that are revealing novel, unanticipated insights that may well offer the keys to the next major advances for cancer patients.