Source: Fierce Healthcare
The reach the Cancer Moonshot goal of reducing the national cancer rate by 50% by 2047, the healthcare industry “needs to move fast,” said Stephen Konya, ONC’s senior advisor and innovation portfolio lead, in an exclusive interview before the details of the initiative were publicly announced. Cancer impacts almost everyone’s life in some way, Konya noted. “If we can get a solution to market faster, even one month faster, that’s one more month somebody might have been with their family member. These are important things to keep in mind. Time is of the essence. We are at a lucky point in our lives right now where everybody is focused on this. We’re fortunate in the sense that still many organizations have been responding to the Cancer Moonshot individually and now it’s time for them to put an accelerant on that to work together collectively to get things to market even faster,” Konya said.