Biden Shouts Out ‘Cancer Moonshot’ In State Of The Union

The annual address also included discussion of legislation passed to improve the US supply of semiconductor chips, as well as new research body ARPA-H.

Biden address to Congress 28 April 2021.  Photo by Doug Mills - Pool/Getty Images
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US President Joe Biden remains committed to a Cancer Moonshot initiative to “end cancer as we know it,” the chief executive said in his annual State of the Union address Tuesday night.

“Our goal is to cut the cancer death rates at least by 50 percent in the next 25 years,” he...

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