The president laid out several steps in hopes of eradicating cancer and prevent people from dying from it during a speech Monday in Boston.
Kate became one of the 1.7 million Americans who are diagnosed with cancer every year. In the months that followed, she found the tools to help dismantle that bomb before it was too late.
“We don’t learn enough from their experience as patients and we don’t share enough data and knowledge,” said President Joe Biden during his address at the JFK Library in Boston on Monday afternoon.“The goal is to cut cancer death rates by at least 50%… in the next 25 years,” he vowed. The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health was created earlier this year, with the president on Monday announced the appointment of Dr. Renee Wegrzyn to lead that project.
“By doing that we can dramatically accelerate our ability to get improved therapies,” said Dana Farber Cancer Institute Boston researcher Lewis Cantley.
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