This will be my column in the Monday Gazette:
Imagine the excited news coverage if a major medical journal announced that scientists had developed a cure for cancer.
Editors would splash it across the front page of every newspaper. It would lead the evening newscasts and talk shows would chatter incessantly about it. The word would spread instantly on Twitter and blogs.
That’s probably not how we’re going to cure cancer. But the dramatic progress we have made in fighting cancer is big news that doesn’t get the big headlines or generate lots of chat or tweets because it’s happened so gradually. (more…)
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