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Cancer Center Launches 'Moon Shot' Fight

Houston center aims to slash death rates from 8 kinds of cancer

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Sep 21, 2012 4:48 AM CDT

(Newser) – America's largest cancer center has declared an all-out $3 billion war on eight types of the disease. Houston's MD Anderson Cancer Center is calling the push the "Moon Shots Program," likening it to John F. Kennedy's 1962 declaration that America... Read full story »

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Cancer Center Launches 'Moon Shot' Fight

Houston center aims to slash death rates from 8 kinds of cancer

cancer • breast cancer • prostate cancer • lung cancer • ovarian cancer • cancer research • leukemia • melanoma

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