Passage 3        In 1969, the Citizens Committee for the Conquest of Cancer, inspired by the success that yearof the Apollo 11 space mission and propelled by the indomitable philanthropist Mary Lasker,conceived of a “moon shot” for cancer. That December, the group ran a full-page ad in TheWashington Post and The New York Times: “Mr. Nixon: You can cure cancer.” At the time, a cure wasperceived to be imminent.       President Richard Nixon’s grandiloquent response in his 1971 State of the Union address: “Thetime has come in America when the same kind of concentrated effort that split the atom and took manto the moon should be turned toward conquering this dread disease. Let us make a total nationalcommitment to achieve this goal.”      But the War on Cancer, as the moon shot was called, didn’t reach its goal. Partly, that wasbecause “cure” was an erroneous target. Cancer is not one disease, but more than 200. “We talk abouta ‘cure’ for cancer, but no one would ever use the term ‘cure’ for infectious disease—they would talkabout a cure for AIDS or TB or malaria,” says the Harvard Chan School’s Giovannucci. “You haveto think about these diseases one by one.” More fundamentally, the War on Cancer failed because itspent far too little on cancer prevention and cancer prevention research.      There are many reasons why prevention research is unenticing to medical researchers. Mostsocieties are reactive, rather than proactive, toward the problems they face. This explains why thefinal phases of the research on reactive treatment are usually simpler than the research on proactiveprevention. Curing a patient with advanced disease is often more dramatic than preventing disease ina healthy person. And perhaps most conspicuously, treatments earn far higher profits than do newdiagnostics or prevention measures.       “The way I message this to lawmakers is that our well-being is a gift； we can’t take good healthfor granted, and prevention is a powerful way to protect that gift. When prevention works, you canenjoy the miracle of a perfectly normal, healthy day,” says Koh. “When I interact with lawmakers, Ioften ask about whether they have experienced the pain of losing a loved one when it could have beenprevented. That usually humanizes the conversation and gives it relevance and immediacy.”
【題組】46. What might be the best title for this article?
(A) Nixon’s success in Cancer Prevention
(B) We should value prevention treatment
(C) The patient rights in the United States
(D) The future of the AIDS intervention