STEPHEN MOORE: Let’s Kill Cancer

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There are few things in life more terrifying than a diagnosis of cancer – as any victim to this horrible disease will tell you.

So let’s kill cancer before it kills us.

What if we adopted an Operation Warp Speed for Cancer and made it a national commitment to treat and even eradicate this leading cause of early death in America?  This crusade could be similar in size and scope to our national commitment in the 1950s to developing a vaccine against polio and more recently the vaccine for Covid, both of which saved millions of lives.

We know this is not an impossible dream.  Over the past four decades, we’ve made stunning progress in cutting death rates from many forms of cancer in half.  But there is still a long way to go, especially in eliminating death from pancreatic cancer, lung cancer and childhood cancers.  More than 600,000 Americans die from cancer each.

There is an old saying that the first wealth is good health. Faced with a dreadful disease or shortened life span, the value of one’s material assets or consumption rapidly........

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