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The dismal failure to fund something as broadly promising as the LIFT trial still makes me cringe when I see all the merchandise and "'thons" for cancer research. Soon I'm going to have to step into that massive American Cancer Society building here in Madison and see where the $$$ is going. There are so many institutions across the political spectrum that would benefit from major advances against cancer. I can't help but feel the ball is being dropped...probably just out of chos and lack of coordination. I have found researchers in the same university unaware of research peers that they sit on boards with are working on, even publishing.
But sheer volume of research may yield very little beyond incremental improvements.
Me thinks if cancer stem cells are the root of the problem, judging "success" by shrinkage (RECIST criteria) has led decades of research down the wrong path. CSCs could be the course correction needed.
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