[Comment] Cancer groundshot: going global before going to the moon

The launch of the Cancer Moonshot initiative by US Vice President Joe Biden under the Obama administration generated considerable global interest and excitement among patient organisations, clinicians, and researchers, which culminated in The Lancet Oncology Commission titled Future cancer research priorities in the USA. The three overall themes of the Cancer Moonshot programme—high-tech science, big data, and patient-centred care—focused on technocentric, high-cost research as a strategy that excluded crucial domains for global cancer control.

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