Imagining the Future

Oct 27, 2008

US News and World Report's Bernadine Healy imagines how cancer will be treated in 2040 and discusses how close we are today to making cancer a chronic disease whose treatment is tailored to the patient. Healy seems hopeful that the Cancer Genome Atlas project will help elucidate the genetic causes of cancer.

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