Doctors and other health experts joined ‘Chicago Tonight’ to discuss cancer research efforts.
Joining “Chicago Tonight” to discuss cancer research efforts are Dr. Leonidas Platanias, director of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University; LauraJane Hyde, CEO of Gilda’s Club Chicago; Dr. Alan Tan, director of GU Medical Oncology at Rush University Medical Center; and Dr. Samuel Volchenboum, an associate professor of pediatrics at UChicago Medicine.
The president called his goal of developing treatments and therapeutics for cancers “bold, ambitious, and I might add, completely doable.” “One of the most promising technologies has been the development of blood tests that offer the promise of detecting multiple cancers in a single blood test and really imagining the impact that could have on our ability to detect cancer early and in a more equitable way,” Carnival said. “We think the best way to get us to the place where those are realized is to really test out the technologies we have today and see what works and what really has an impact on extending lives.
Despite Biden’s attempts to hark back to Kennedy and his space program, the current initiative lacks that same level of budgetary support. The Apollo program garnered massive public investment — more than $20 billion, or more than $220 billion in 2022 dollars adjusted for inflation. Biden’s effort is far more modest and reliant on private sector investment.
Experts agree it’s far too early to say whether these new blood tests for finding cancer in healthy people will have any effect on cancer deaths. There have been no studies to show they reduce the risk of dying from cancer. Still, they say setting an ambitious goal is important.
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