Politico May 2, 2024
Federal agencies and private organizations are mobilizing to improve cancer screening access, the president’s cancer cabinet announced Wednesday.
Biden’s health agencies are chipping in on the effort, as are agencies as varied as the Energy and Labor departments and the U.S. Fire Administration.
Improving access to cancer screenings is a key part of the president’s cancer moonshot initiative, which has the ambitious goal of reducing the cancer death rate by half over 25 years — and improving the lives of cancer patients and their caregivers.
“It is important for every American to know that cancer screenings are lifesaving — early detection can make all the difference in beating the disease,” President Joe Biden said in March.
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