'But let there be no doubt, now that I am president, this is a presidential White House priority. Period,' Joe Biden said at a Wednesday press conference.
announced Wednesday the relaunch of the"Cancer Moonshot" program with the stated goal of reducing the death rates from cancer in the U.S. by 50 percent over the next 25 years.
Biden has said several times publicly that his son's death was the main reason he did not run for president in 2016, and said Wednesday that his passion for cancer research and desire to be the president that"ended cancer as we know it" was a key reason in why he ran in 2020, the AP reported. As evidence that their goals could be achieved, the White House cited the fact that since 2000, the death rate from cancer has dropped by about 25 percent, from 200 per 100,000 people to 146 per 100,000 people, according to the AP.
One screening clinic in Boston that normally sees over 60,000 patients come in for cancer screenings over an average three-month period, had that number plummet to under 16,000 in the first three months of the pandemic shutdowns beginning in March 2020, according toA study published in March 2021 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine analyzed mammogram and colonoscopy rates based on insurance claims for the procedures, studying a pool of over 6 million U.S. adults.
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