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"President Barack Obama is confident Americans can cure cancer and so are some of the country's top cancer doctors, including Dr. Cheryl Willman, who heads the University of New Mexico's Cancer Center.\"The outlook for cancer patients in the United States just continues to improve,\" said Willman.She and five other top cancer researchers are heading to Washington, D.C., Thursday to talk with White House officials, including Vice President Joe Biden, about ways to defeat the disease.\"We are developing a new program based on brain cancers. We are developing a transplant program to bring new therapies,\" Willman said.Willman said one of the biggest obstacles facing doctors at cancer centers today is trying to get the therapies and treatment developed from centers out to more patients. Willman says New Mexico has the blueprint for that.The cancer center teams up with local hospitals to make sure patients have access to the clinical trials they need. Willman that kind of approach would work very well nationwide.\"There is tremendous excitement and a lot of new drugs and therapies being developed for cancer patients today that make it less of a death sentence and more of a chronic disease,\" she said."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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