Opinion: Cancer moonshot 2.0: A missed opportunity for prevention

President Biden’s new initiative to “reignite the cancer moonshot” proposes the laudable goal of cutting the cancer death rate in the United States in half in the next 25 years, but misses the opportunity to advance the strategies that could achieve that target.
Noting that the Covid-19 pandemic has claimed nearly 900,000 lives in the last two years while cancer has killed more than 1.2 million Americans in the same period, Biden called for a new sense of urgency in making progress in reducing the burden of cancer. Read the rest…