WATCH LIVE: At Boston's JFK Library, President Biden is speaking about efforts to cure cancer on the 60th anniversary of Kennedy's 'moonshot' speech.
Home to companies like COVID vaccine creators Biogen and Moderna, the Boston area is one of the nation's top biotech hubs, with graduate from the area's top universities helping to fill rapidly expanding lab space all over the region.
Biden will draw attention to a new federally backed study that seeks evidence for using blood tests to screen against multiple cancers — a potential game-changer in diagnostic testing to dramatically improve early detection of cancers. He also planned other announcements meant to better the lives of those suffering from cancer.
Biden seeks to rally the nation around developing treatments and therapeutics for the pervasive diseases that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rank as the second-highest killer of people in the U.S. after heart disease. Biden hopes to move the U.S. closer to the goal he set in February of cutting U.S. cancer fatalities by 50% over the next 25 years and to dramatically improve the lives of caregivers and those suffering from cancer.
Before the cancer"moonshot" speech Monday afternoon, Biden spoke at Boston Logan International Airport's Terminal E, which is being modernized, to discuss what the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is doing for Americans. He noted that the demand for international flights has quadrupled in the 48 years since the terminal was built, leading to traffic jams on the tarmac.
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