Can­cer Moon­shot moves for­ward with new 'Cancer Cab­i­net' and goals to re­duce can­cer

Pres­i­dent Joe Biden’s re­vival of the Can­cer Moon­shot ini­tia­tive now in­cludes a new Can­cer Cab­i­net, with some big ideas to make the goals of the Moon­shot fea­si­ble.

The White House’s so-called Can­cer Cab­i­net — a new en­ti­ty cre­at­ed when Biden re-ig­nit­ed the Can­cer Moon­shot in Feb­ru­ary 2022 — an­nounced spe­cif­ic “pri­or­i­ty ini­tia­tives” ear­li­er this week as part of the ini­tia­tive’s stat­ed goal of try­ing to cut can­cer fa­tal­i­ty by half in 25 years. The Cab­i­net, ac­cord­ing to the White House, in­cludes mul­ti­ple fed­er­al agen­cies, in­clud­ing the NCI, FDA, CDC, and NIH — and the re­cent­ly-added De­part­ments of La­bor and Com­merce, NASA and the White House Gen­der Pol­i­cy Coun­cil.

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