CDC writes first check in $1.1B Can­cer Moon­shot grant

When Pres­i­dent Joe Biden reignit­ed the Oba­ma-era Can­cer Moon­shot ini­tia­tive four months ago, sci­en­tists won­dered where the mon­ey would come from. On Wednes­day, the CDC doled out the first in­stall­ment of a five-year, $1.1 bil­lion grant to get things go­ing.

Over the first of five years, the CDC is shelling out $215 mil­lion to 3 na­tion­al pro­grams es­tab­lished in the 1990s to im­prove can­cer pre­ven­tion, de­tec­tion, di­ag­no­sis and con­trol. Through these pro­grams — the Na­tion­al Breast and Cer­vi­cal Can­cer Ear­ly De­tec­tion Pro­gram (NBC­CEDP), the Na­tion­al Com­pre­hen­sive Can­cer Con­trol Pro­gram (NC­C­CP), and the Na­tion­al Pro­gram of Can­cer Reg­istries (NPCR) — all fifty states are re­ceiv­ing fund­ing, as well as 18 trib­al or­ga­ni­za­tions and five ter­ri­to­ries.

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