Medscape August 13, 2024
Andrea Shalal And Jarrett Renshaw

(Reuters) – President Joe Biden will announce Tuesday he is putting $150 million in new federal funding towards developing technology to better help surgeons successfully remove cancerous tumors, the White House said.

The award, to be announced during a visit to New Orleans, is the latest infusion of cash in Biden’s “Cancer Moonshot,” a program spearheaded by the president and the First Lady that aims to reduce the U.S. cancer death rate by at least half by 2047.

Nearly two million Americans are newly diagnosed with solid tumor cancers each year and surgical removal is often the...

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