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 WASHINGTON (AP) - Promising cancer research needs to be translated more quickly into practical methods of diagnosis and treatment, a presidential commission says.
Barriers exist at every step between the laboratory and a patient's bed, according to the report being released Monday. Unless those barriers are eased, "the national investment in cancer research will be tragically squandered, for discoveries that do not lead to improved patient outcomes are tantamount to no discovery at all," the President's Cancer Panel said.
This year, some 1.37 million new cases of cancer will be diagnosed and about 570,000 Americans will die from cancer, according to the American Cancer Society.
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