Becker's Healthcare August 27, 2024
President Joe Biden launched the Cancer Moonshot in 2016, when he was serving as vice president in the Obama administration. President Biden reignited the initiative in 2022, setting a goal to reduce the cancer death rate by 50% in the next 25 years.
To support those efforts, the administration has awarded hundreds of millions of dollars to cancer research institutes across the country.
Here are four Cancer Moonshot updates:
- The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health awarded $150 million to seven research teams across the country toward the development of surgical technologies, imaging systems and tools for removing tumors.
- Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.): A laparoscopic imaging tool for prostate cancer surgery that includes 3D mapping and...
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