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SU2C launches 'cancer interception' initiative to detect & treat cancer at earliest stages

20:00 EDT 25 Oct 2017 | AAAS

(Entertainment Industry Foundation) Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), the Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research, LUNGevity, and the American Lung Association, have awarded a total of $16.6 million to four teams of top researchers to carry out an attack on cancers of the lung and pancreas using a radical new approach of "interception" of cancers at very early stages when they can be more successfully treated, even catching precancerous cells and blocking them from turning into cancer cells.

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