President Biden aims to reduce cancer death rate by 50% over next 25 years
On Wednesday, President Joe Biden announced he is committing to reduce the cancer death rate by 50% in the next 25 years.President Biden announced the first version of his cancer cure initiative in 2016 when he was vice president.
During that time, he worked on creating public-private partnerships with biomedical companies, community organizations and academic institutions.As part of the new effort, Biden will assemble a “cancer Cabinet” that includes 18 federal departments, agencies and offices, including leaders from the Departments of Health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs, Defense, Energy and Agriculture.Carnival is a neuroscientist who also worked on the 2016 version.
The White House also plans to host a summit on the initiative and continue a roundtable discussion series on it. The American Cancer Society estimates that there will be 1,918,030 new cancer cases and 609,360 cancer deaths this year.
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