In a nod to JFK, Biden pushing ‘moonshot’ to fight cancer.
, which dedicated $1.8 billion over seven years for cancer research and was signed into law in 2016 by President Barack Obama.
Still, Biden has tried to maintain momentum for investments in public health research, including championing the , modeled after similar research and development initiatives benefiting the Pentagon and intelligence community. Experts agree it’s far too early to say whether these new blood tests for finding cancer in healthy people will have any effect on cancer deaths. There have been no studies to show they reduce the risk of dying from cancer. Still, they say setting an ambitious goal is important. Study was designed so that any promising diagnostic results could be swiftly put into widespread practice while the longer-term study — expected to last up to a decade — progresses.
Despite the challenges, he’s optimistic about cutting the cancer death rate in half over the next 25 years. is helping. The American Cancer Society says such screening helped drive down the cancer death rate 32% from its peak in 1991 to 2019, the most recent year for which numbers are available.“It’s tragic,” said Dr. Roy Herbst, a lung specialist at “The moonshot is going to have to be a social fix as well as a scientific and medical fix,” Herbst said. “We’re going to have to find a way that screening becomes easier, that it’s fully covered, that we have more screening facilities.
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