Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: a new deal for cancer / Charles S. Fuchs, Abbe R. Gluck, and Eugene Rusyn -- Cancer care today: where we are and who pays. The new borders of Cancerland / Siddartha Mukherjee -- A view from the ground: the changing landscape of cancer care / Randall A. Oyer and Erin O. Aakhus -- The health insurance landscape and cancer care / K. Robin Yabroff -- Reductions in cancer drug prices must account for the cross-subsidies they provide for essential underimbursed services / Edward J. Benz Jr. -- Save physician-owned practices to save money in health care / Barbara McAneny -- Cancer and the community. Racial disparities and cancer injustice / Matt K. Nguyen and Otis W. Brawley -- Cancer and health justice / Blase N. Polite and Lindsay F. Wiley -- Cancer and public health / Melinda L. Irwin, Abigail S. Friedman, Nicole C. Deziel, and Linda M. Niccolai -- Lift every voice and sing: working for equity for children with cancer / Nancy Goodman -- Perspectives on cancer advocacy / Sherry Lansing -- Science and treatment transformed. The frontier of cancer care / Aphrothiti J. Hanrahan, Gurshan S. Gill, and David B. Solnit -- Oncologist perspectives on the evolution of clinical care since the National Cancer Act of 1971 / Neal J. Meropol and Eric P. Winer -- Responsible open-source data sharing for precision oncology / Cynthia Jung, Kenna Shaw, Arjun Mody, Barrett J. Rollins, and Charles L. Sawyers -- (Over-)paying for cancer care / Cary Gross, Stacie B. Dusetzina, and Ezekiel J. Emanuel -- Governing cancer. FDA and Cancer R&D: the engine for future cures / Gideon Blumenthal -- US federal agencies: advancing cancer research and care though improved coordination and efficiency / Shelagh Foster, Shimere Sherwood, and Richard L. Schilsky -- The fifty states of cancer / Cary Gross and Deborah Schrag -- Cancer and congress / Hon. Rosa L. DeLauro and Abbe R. Gluck -- Cancer and the President: the moonshot and beyond / Greg Simon and Allison Rabkin Golden.

"The longest war in the modern era, longer than the Cold War, has been the war on cancer. Cancer is a complex, evasive enemy, and there was no quick victory in the fight against it. But the battle has been a monumental test of medical and scientific research and fundraising acumen, as well as a moral and ethical challenge to the entire system of medicine. In A New Deal for Cancer, some of today's leading thinkers, activists, and medical visionaries describe the many successes in the long war and the ways in which our deeper failings as a society have held us back from a more complete success. Together they present an unrivaled and nearly complete map of the battlefield across dimensions of science, government, equity, business, the patient provider experience, and more, documenting our emerging understanding of cancer's many unique dimensions and offering bold new plans to enable the American health care system to deliver progress and hope to all patients." --