Feb. 2, 2022 / 7:20 AM / Updated at 4:20 PM
Biden announces plan to cut cancer deaths in half in 25 years
By Clyde Hughes & Danielle Haynes
Feb. 2 (UPI) -- President Joe Biden on Wednesday vowed to slash the cancer death rate in half over the next 25 years, calling his goal "ambitious, but ... doable."
He announced the aggressive undertaking during remarks on reviving his so-called "cancer moonshot" effort.
"The goal is to cut the cancer death rate in half in the next 25 years," Biden said during a White House event Wednesday. "It's bold, it's ambitious, but it's completely doable.
"We can do this. We can end cancer as we know it."
Biden launched the Cancer Moonshot initiative in 2016 as vice president under President Barack Obama, not long after his son Beau died of brain cancer.
"We're calling it a 'Moonshot,' and that's because I believe that this effort, like President [John] Kennedy's call to land on the moon 55 years ago, is truly a call to humankind -- to be bold and do big things," Biden said at the time.
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