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

So let's kill cancer before it kills us.

This crusade could be similar in size and scope to our national commitments to developing a polio vaccine in the 1950s and the COVID-19 vaccine in 2020-21, 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 of 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 year; worldwide, that number is closer to 25 million.

There is an old saying that the first wealth is good health. When one is faced with a dreadful disease or shortened lifespan, the value of material assets or consumption rapidly becomes........

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