Council for American Medical Innovation

It’s an exciting time in the field of medicine. New techniques and technologies are revolutionizing the process of research and discovery, and new treatments are on the horizon for some of the world’s most dreadful diseases.

• Companies around the world are studying vaccines for diseases like HIV and malaria – which could make these devastating illnesses a thing of the past.
• New diagnostic tests will allow doctors to find and treat many types of cancer at an earlier stage.

The number of people who die from cancer in the United States each year has been dropping – thanks to earlier detection and new treatment options. 

Newly available vaccines – such as those that prevent human papillomavirus, the primary cause of cervical cancer – promise to reduce the incidence of some cancers altogether. And vaccines to treat non-Hodgkin lymphoma, melanoma, kidney cancer, multiple myeloma, and prostate cancer are currently being studied.

We're learning more each day about genetics, molecular biology, and immunology, and this expanding body of knowledge will help researchers develop even more effective and less toxic treatments for cancers of all kinds, as well as better diagnostic tools so that cancers can be discovered earlier - when they are most treatable.