Biden hopes to move the U.S. closer to the goal of cutting U.S. cancer fatalities by 50% over the next 25 years.
, which dedicated $1.8 billion over seven years for cancer research and was signed into law in 2016 by President Barack Obama.
Still, Biden has tried to maintain momentum for investments in public health research, including championing the, modeled after similar research and development initiatives benefiting the Pentagon and intelligence community. Scientists now understand that cancer is not a single disease, but hundreds of diseases that respond differently to different treatments. Some cancers have biomarkers that can be targeted by existing drugs that will slow a tumor’s growth. Many more targets await discovery.
“We can get to that 50% goal by slowing the disease sufficiently across the various cancers without curing anybody,” Berry said. “If I were to bet on whether we will achieve this 50% reduction, I would bet yes.”
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