Weekly Address: VP Biden: Achieving the Mission of the Cancer Moonshot

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Source: White House

In this week's address, Vice President Joe Biden discussed the progress of the White House Cancer Moonshot, an initiative with the goal to make a decade’s worth of advances in cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, in five years. Recently, the Cancer Moonshot Task Force released a report that outlines what we need to do to achieve this goal, including: enhancing prevention efforts, expanding access to care, increasing collaboration and sharing data amongst cancer researchers, and building an international commitment to the fight against cancer. The report also highlighted the progress we’ve made since the launch of the Moonshot.


Today, federal agencies are working together to share research – such as the National Institutes of Health using NASA’s research on radiation and its effects on the human body. In the past few months, more than 70 public and private sector commitments have been made to join the fight against cancer – such as IBM, which offered its supercomputer, Watson, to partner with the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs to help patients determine specific therapies they need for their cancer treatment. The Vice President said the Moonshot is about all of us doing our part in the fight against cancer. To learn how you can volunteer to help, visit Cancer.Serve.Gov, and to learn about clinical trials nearby, visit Trials.Cancer.Gov.
http://www.serve.gov/cancer-moonshot
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/clinical-trials/search

Read more: https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/10/29/weekly-address-achieving-mission-cancer-moonshot

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I delivered a report to President Obama laying out how far we’ve come since he put me in charge of the Cancer Moonshot back in January—and a real vision of where we need to go in the immediate future to: do in five years what would otherwise take ten; inject a sense of urgency into the fight against cancer; and change the culture and reimagine our system to win.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/10/29/weekly-address-achieving-mission-cancer-moonshot
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1. It was a long one too!

Joe is passionate about his project and you can tell that he has put his all in it. He used this address to lay out where they are with it 6 months in.

Thanks for posting!

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4. Hi BumRushDaShow

I'm glad he's doing this and I'm happy to see him talking about this in the weekly address

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2. and avoid monsters like Martin Shkreli

The 32-year-old hedge funder and entrepreneur then tried to style himself as a martyr to the whims of his companies’ shareholders.

“My whole life has been one theme, of self-sacrifice for my investors,” he said. “I did it for my shareholders’ benefit because that’s my job. The political risk is being shamed, and shame isn’t dilutive to earnings per share.”


http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/pharma-bro-martin-shkreli-regrets-nothing-aids-drug-was-woefully-underpriced-before/

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3. K&R!