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Improving Cancer Prevention Strategies NFCR supports ongoing research on dietary nutrients, cutting-edge cancer prevention drugs, and risk model development. These efforts are critical for raising cancer awareness and improving prevention of many types of cancer.
Developing Cancer Early-Detection Tools NFCR scientists are developing highly sensitive technologies that can detect cancer at its earliest stage, leading to faster, more targeted treatments and dramatic increases in effectiveness and survival rate.
Advancing Cancer Treatment NFCR is paving the way for cancer therapies that are tailored to an individual's genetic makeup. This genetics-based approach will mean an end to traditional therapies' one-size-fits-all approach and a dramatic shift in the way we fight cancer. We're also engineering "smart viruses"to target cancer cells and developing treatments that shut down a tumor's vital blood supply, so it can't grow or spread.
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Famous quotes containing the word present:
“We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from their present pursuit.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.”
—William James (1842–1910)