Fact Sheet: President Biden Reignites Cancer Moonshot to End Cancer as We Know It

[LetMyPeopleVote]

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Biden-Harris Administration Sets Goal of Reducing Cancer Death Rate by at least 50 Percent Over the Next 25 Years, and Improving the Experience of Living with and Surviving Cancer

As Vice President, in 2016, Joe Biden launched the Cancer Moonshot with the mission to accelerate the rate of progress against cancer. The cancer and patient community and medical researchers responded with tremendous energy and ingenuity.

Today, President Biden is reigniting the Cancer Moonshot with renewed White House leadership of this effort. Because of recent progress in cancer therapeutics, diagnostics, and patient-driven care, as well as the scientific advances and public health lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s now possible to set ambitious goals: to reduce the death rate from cancer by at least 50 percent over the next 25 years, and improve the experience of people and their families living with and surviving cancer— and, by doing this and more, end cancer as we know it today.

The President and First Lady Jill Biden are also announcing a call to action on cancer screening to jumpstart progress on screenings that were missed as a result of the pandemic, and help ensure that everyone in the United States equitably benefits from the tools we have to prevent, detect, and diagnose cancer.......

Biden-Harris Administration Sets Goal of Reducing Cancer Death Rate by at least 50 Percent Over the Next 25 Years, and Improving the Experience of Living with and Surviving Cancer

As Vice President, in 2016, Joe Biden launched the Cancer Moonshot with the mission to accelerate the rate of progress against cancer. The cancer and patient community and medical researchers responded with tremendous energy and ingenuity.

Today, President Biden is reigniting the Cancer Moonshot with renewed White House leadership of this effort. Because of recent progress in cancer therapeutics, diagnostics, and patient-driven care, as well as the scientific advances and public health lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s now possible to set ambitious goals: to reduce the death rate from cancer by at least 50 percent over the next 25 years, and improve the experience of people and their families living with and surviving cancer— and, by doing this and more, end cancer as we know it today.

The President and First Lady Jill Biden are also announcing a call to action on cancer screening to jumpstart progress on screenings that were missed as a result of the pandemic, and help ensure that everyone in the United States equitably benefits from the tools we have to prevent, detect, and diagnose cancer..

[DURHAM D]

1. Quotable quote from the VP

“After a lifetime of working to end cancer, cancer ended my mother's life."

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[betsuni]

2. K&R

[SheltieLover]

3. K&R!

[Budi]

4. Biden is a man of his word. He's keeping the promises that got him elected too.

How lucky we got in Nov 2020 & Jan 2021 as well !

I'd like to see his long & detailed to-do list from the 1st day at his desk in the Oval Office.

This is why he walked straight thru the primaries & on past the Nov election & up the front steps to the White House.

[betsuni]

7. I remember criticism about this. I pointed out that Biden's motto is

not to make promises you can't keep. He doesn't make cheap promises.

[Budi]

8. This one is dear to him. It's a promise & now a reality for all who have walked in the same shoes

[Nixie]

20. Yes! Great post.

This is such a worthwhile cause.

[greymattermom]

5. So when will the antivax folks

become for cancer? Just to own the libs.

[NBachers]

6. I like this better than "Sieg Heil" and book burning. Why isn't this guys ratings off the charts?

[Budi]

9. Media & the 2024 election. They won't give credit to Biden or his VP for fear of ...

..a humiliating repeat of the 2020 Primary & the General Election.
All they have in their arsenal is intimidation media propaganda.

Joe Biden is America's President in the White House ...and they are not.

[CrackityJones75]

14. I feel like it is more than just wanting the horserace

I feel like they are getting on and helping push authoritarianism.

[Budi]

16. Indeed. Its not even a maybe anymore.

The weight of the world truly is on President Biden's shoulders.
And it's exactly how they want it.

[brer cat]

10. K&R

[Budi]

11. "After four hellish yrs with a sociopath, it's going to take a lot for me to criticize @JoeBiden .."

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After four hellish yrs with a sociopath, it's going to take a lot for me to criticize @JoeBiden for anything. I actually think he and his team are doing a great job & I will not blame him for matters outside of his control. He's honest, competent, caring, & sane.

"It is such a tremendous departure from unhinged."

[Klaralven]

12. National Cancer Act of 1971

The National Cancer Institute was established in its current form by the National Cancer Act of 1971, signed into law by President Richard Nixon. This legislation was an amendment to the Public Health Service Act of 1944 and represented the US commitment to what President Nixon described as the “war on cancer,” which had become the nation’s second leading cause of death by 1970.

https://www.cancer.gov/about-nci/overview/history/national-cancer-act-1971

The "War on Cancer" hasn't gone any better than our other wars.

[OneGrassRoot]

15. The advances given...

the near laser focus of the scientific community is what gives me hope this time.

[USALiberal]

17. Are you saying cancer remedies are no better than 1970 ??

[Klaralven]

18. Death rate is down about 25% in the last 50 years

Deaths by cancer in the U.S. from 1950 to 2018 (per 100,000 population)

https://www.statista.com/statistics/184566/deaths-by-cancer-in-the-us-since-1950/

198.6 deaths / 100,000 in 1970.

149.1 in 2018.

Some cancers have become more treatable. Other still have no effective treatment, e.g. gliablastoma. But we try, at very considerable cost.

Health Care Expenditure Burden of Cancer Care in the United States

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6778988/

[NBachers]

21. I've just had a kidney removed by a robot, and am undergoing chemotherapy now. My medical staff has

told me that personalized dosing, therapy, and developments are evolving on pretty much a daily basis. I have faith in my medical community, and President Biden's commitment is encouraging.

I'm also lucky that my insurance is covering nearly all of the expenses.

[Lovie777]

13. K & R . . .

I find Gene Therapy very interesting.

[spanone]

19. Thank You!