President Joe Biden is committing to reduce the cancer death rate by 50%.
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden said he is committing to reduce the cancer death rate by 50% - a new goal for the"moonshot" initiative against the disease that was announced in 2016 when he was vice president.
The pain experienced by the president is shared by many Americans. The American Cancer Society estimates that there will be 1,918,030 new cancer cases and 609,360 cancer deaths this year. Dr. Otis Brawley, a professor of oncology and epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University and former chief medical and scientific officer for the American Cancer Society, said advances in medical research have led to a"better understanding of the biology of cancer and will do even more for us in the future."
When Biden announced he wasn't seeking the Democratic nomination in 2016, he said he regretted not being president because"I would have wanted to have been the president who ended cancer, because it's possible." "I'm glad to see that the Biden administration is putting an emphasis on awareness because that is the key to survivorship is awareness and early detection," said Hedgepeth about Wednesday's announcement.
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