NCI has released the language of the much-discussed National Cancer Plan, an eight-goal blueprint that spans the spectrum of cancer care—prevention, treatment, and survivorship—to correspond with President Joe Biden’s vision of cutting cancer mortality by half in 25 years.
How’s this for a paradox: The better cancer centers become at keeping patients alive, the more expensive cancer care becomes. This brutal tradeoff hits harder in rural areas, where the cancer burden is higher and the investigator and clinical trial representation is lower.
