President Biden's speech on efforts to end cancer

President Biden’s speech on efforts to end cancer

September 13, 2022

President Joe Biden called on Americans Monday to come together for a “new national goal,” his administration’s effort to end cancer.

At the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Mr. Biden echoed former President Kennedy’s famous speech 60 years ago, comparing the space race to his fight against cancer and hoping it will inspire American citizens. .

“He set a national goal that united the American people around a common goal,” President Biden said of former President Kennedy’s space efforts, adding that it could also be done in the effort to end cancer.

President Biden hopes to bring the United States closer to the goal he set in February of reducing cancer deaths in America by 50% over the next 25 years and dramatically improving the lives of those who care for cancer patients and that of those suffering from cancer. Experts say that the objective is achievable, but with adequate investments.

The president called his goal of developing cancer treatments and therapies “bold, ambitious and completely achievable.”

In his speech, Biden called on the private sector to make medicine more affordable for Americans. He said that medical advances are possible through the concentration of efforts in the field of research, funding and data.

The US president spoke about a new study supported by the federal government on the use of blood tests in efforts to detect many types of cancer, which would dramatically improve the detection of cancer in its early stages.

According to the estimates of the American Cancer Society, in 2022 there are expected to be 1.9 million new cases of cancer and 609,360 people are expected to die from this disease. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ranked cancer as the number two cause of death in the US. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in America.

President Biden’s son Beau died of brain cancer in 2015. After his death, Congress passed the 21st Century Cures Act, which provided $1.8 billion in investments for cancer research, and signed it into law in 2016 by President Barack Obama.