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Report: Progress Being Made in Battle Against Cancer

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Friday, February 3, 2017   

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Medical researchers are hoping the bipartisan support that's been given to the study of cancer continues under the Trump administration.

Saturday is World Cancer Day, and the American Society of Clinical Oncology has released its annual report called "Clinical Cancer Advances 2017." Dr. Harold Burstein, a breast-cancer specialist and co-editor of the report, said remarkable progress has been made - the payoff for decades of research that's led to a better understanding of the immune system and human genonmes.

Burstein said federal funding is critical in the battle against cancer.

"One of the group most dependent on federal research grants are young people in their 20s and 30s who are perhaps at their scientifically most cutting edge in terms of their thinking and experimentation," Burstein said, "and we need to support their work if we're going to have progress."

The report named immunotherapy as this year's biggest advance. In just one year, Burstein said, the Food and Drug Administration approved five new uses for cancer immunotherapy, expanding treatment options and improving lives for patients with advanced and early-stage cancers.

Not only has cancer treatment improved, Burstein said, but preventing it in the first place has as well. He cited the HPV vaccine as a major advance, and said progress is being made in other areas.

"Recently, a report from Australia that Vitamin B compounds like nicotinamides can help prevent second skin cancers in people who've already had one skin cancer," he said. "So active prevention strategies are emerging really for some of the first times."

Burstein said he hopes the Trump administration places an emphasis on medical research because it's giving people what they often need most: hope.

"For a long time, I think, people had been a little nihilistic, feeling that there wasn't demonstrable or measurable progress in cancer care," he said. "That's really no longer the case."

Advances included in the report range from new genetic tests that may help people lower their risk of certain cancers to new treatments that target molecules that help cancers grow. The report outlined the importance of emerging research on using the so-called liquid biopsies in cancer care.

The report is online at asco.org.


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