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President Biden hopes ending cancer can be a 'national purpose'
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President Joe Biden delivered a speech Monday that paralleled John F. Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the moon and Biden's own vision for another "American moonshot" of cutting cancer deaths in half over the next 25 years.
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President Joe Biden is urging Americans to come together for a new “national purpose” — his administration’s effort to end cancer “as we know it.” At the John F. Kennedy
The commander-in-chief wants to develop treatments and therapeutics to battle cancer and hopes to meet a goal to cut cancer deaths by 50% over the next 25 years to improve the lives of caregivers and people suffering from cancer.
President Joe Biden issued an executive order Monday boosting the US biotech sector as part of his Cancer Moonshot initiative, which invokes the national
His speech comes as Biden seeks to rally the nation around developing treatments and therapeutics for the pervasive diseases that the CDC rank as the second-highest killer of people in the U.S. after heart disease.
President Biden, a nod to JFK's infamous moonshot speech, highlighted his administration's efforts to cut the U.S. death rate from cancer in half over the next quarter-century.
The US president announced a slew of new programs to support cancer research, and compared his goal of halving cancer deaths to putting a man on the moon.
President Joe Biden delivered a speech Monday that paralleled John F. Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the moon and Biden's own vision for another "American moonshot" of cutting cancer deaths in half over the next 25 years.
President Biden on Monday touted his vision for greatly reducing cancer deaths as a national cause that could inspire divided Americans to rally around a common goal.
By Kate Sullivan and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden sought to deliver a unifying speech in Boston on Monday focused on his “Moonshot” initiative to reduce cancer deaths in the United States — a stop that’s part of a ramped up travel schedule highlighting his administration’s accomplishments…
Biden announced many of what he calls "cancer moonshot" goals in February. On Monday he laid out some updates in a speech that marked 60 years since Kennedy gave his iconic moonshot speech.
President Joe Biden on Monday urged Americans to come together for a new “national purpose" — his administration's effort to end cancer "as we know it."
BOSTON -- President Joe Biden on Monday urged Americans to come together for a new "national purpose" -- his administration's effort to end cancer "as we know it."
While announcing the inaugural director of a new health agency, the president updated Americans on actions his administration is taking to combat cancer, the second leading cause of death in the U.S.
