On February 3, 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden relaunched the White House’s “Cancer Moonshot” program, with the goal of developing innovative new treatments for the disease, as well as eradicating it altogether.
The objective is bold, namely, to reduce the cancer death rate by at least 50 percent over the next 25 years. Biden had initially spearheaded the effort in 2016 after the death of his son Beau to brain cancer at age 46.
The original initiative was funded at 1.8 billion dollars over a seven-year period. 400 million dollars of the original amount is still scheduled to be distributed over 2022 and 2023.
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