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Today, the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston announced it would take one
giant leap in fighting cancer. Launching in February 2013, its program will
aim to reduce cancer deaths from eight specific types of cancer, find cures,
and boost prevention efforts over the next 10 years. The project is
estimated to cost about $3 billion dollars over the next decade, and the
center already has tens of millions to jumpstart efforts. The dramatic
effort is inspired by John F. Kennedy's push for space exploration in the
1960s, specifically when the former president insisted America land on the
moon and do other challenging tasks "not because they are easy, but because
they are hard." "When Kennedy stood up there on September 1962, he didn't
say that we're going to study how to get to the moon," Ronald DePinho,
president of MD Anderson, told ABC News. "He said we are going to the moon.
Then the nation rallied to make sure we went to the moon." While cancer
death rates have been falling since the 1990s, the disease is still a major
threat. In the United States, the Associated Press reports, estimates are
that more than 500,000 people will die from cancer this year.