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Anti-Cancer Need Funds: US Researchers
"As a nation we face two critical challenges to advancing cancer care -- stalled federal funding for cancer research and limited access to high quality cancer care," said Julie Gralow, associate professor of medicine at the University of Washington.
"If we don't start reinvesting soon, the current pace of progress will be jeopardized," said Gralow, who chairs the American Society of Clinical Oncology's communications committee.
"As a result, fewer patients will benefit from scientific advances," she said, adding: "As the new cancer research we released this year shows, there is quite a bit to be excited about."
Doctors and researchers are to convene in Chicago for ASCO's 44th annual conference May 30-June 3, devoted to the latest developments in the fight against cancer, a disease that kills eight million people per year.
The results of around 30 clinical trials are due to be presented during the five day conference, with attendance expected to top 30,000.
Most of the clinical trials are to present advances in breast cancer, the top cancer killer among women worldwide, and lung cancer which is the deadliest form of cancer, causing 1.3 million death around the globe each year according to the World Health Organization.
One of the clinical trials on lung cancer involves Cetuximab, marketed as Erbitux by the pharmaceutical giant Merck, which is administered intravenously in combination with chemotherapy.
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