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World Cancer Day 2013: How To Get Involved
Learn the ways you can make a difference this World Cancer Day.
The Power of Resolutions
Your new year’s resolutions can fight cancer.Being Thankful, Even Through Cancer
The surprising emotional and physical benefits of giving thanks.
Advice for the Next President
As the parties gather to nominate their candidates and the campaign for the presidency heats up, National Book Award finalist Devra Lee Davis urges action on cancer from the next President, whoever it may be.
Impatience and Understanding
In the early 1900s disease after disease fell to antibiotics. What will be the breakthrough that finally fells cancer? Putting the past and present into perspective, Dr. Brian Druker, who helped develop Gleevec (imatinib), a drug that targets the molecular defect in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), is optimistic that the breakthrough is coming. But he doesn’t want to wait.
A one percent reduction in cancer deaths would be worth $500 billion, almost 2.5 times what the U.S. spends each year on the disease.
