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Directors of NCI cancer centers say prevention, control, and health equity are key to reaching Moonshot goal

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Cancer prevention and control and efforts to ensure health equity are essential in meeting the Cancer Moonshot goal of halving cancer mortality in the next 25 years, but some complex scientific and societal problems must be resolved for this to happen, a group of four directors of NCI-designated cancer centers said. 

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