National Cancer Institute Director Andrew von Eschenbach makes a point to Chairman Mike Milken during the Accelerating Medical Solutions panel at the 2004 Milken Institute Global Conference. Von Eschenbach, who authored the foreword in
A Call to Action, a book chronicling the history of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, told the audience that medical advances can be accelerated by combining financial resources, intellectual capital, and technologies such as genomics, proteomics and molecular imaging.