AUSTIN, Texas, June 15 -- The University of Texas at Austin issued the following news release:
In the year ahead, Texas is expected to hit a record-high number of cancer diagnoses. Nationally, cancer remains the second-leading cause of death overall, and the leading cause of death among people under 85.
Tremendous progress in cancer research has led to better treatments, longer lives, more survivors and steadily declining mortality rates. But even so, cancer is still among the greatest challenges in medicine.
One of the world's top public research universities and the nation's leading cancer center are uniting to create the next breakthroughs in cancer care and research - faster.
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