Joe's 'cancer moonshot': Biden leaves White House for Boston to unveil plan to slash cancer deaths in HALF within 25 years as he links speech to 60th anniversary of JFK's man on the moon address
Biden heads to Boston to talk about his 'Cancer Moonshot'
He will push his goal to cut cancer deaths in half over the next 25 years
He will speak at Kennedy Library on 60th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's famous speech about space travel
Biden to sign executive order giving more federal funds for the U.S. biotechnology industry
Biden also will name Dr. Renee Wegrzyn as the first director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health
By Emily Goodin, Senior U.S. Political Reporter
Published: 10:23 EDT, 12 September 2022 | Updated: 14:27 EDT, 12 September 2022
Joe Biden has left the White House for Boston to push his goal to cut cancer deaths in half over the next 25 years.
The President touted his address as the 'Cancer Moonshot', and linked it to the 60th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's famous speech about space travel.
He issued an executive order boosting the US biotech sector as part of the initiative, which invokes the national effort to land a man on the Moon.
The Democrat was in Boston for an address deliberately set to echo John F. Kennedy's famous 1962 'Moonshot speech' in which he called for landing an American on the lunar surface -- something achieved in 1969.
This time, Biden is pushing for government-backed efforts to coordinate and fund a multilayered fight against cancer, with the goal of halving cancer death rates in the next 25 years.
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