Obama calls for moonshot approach to cure cancer

Modern Healthcare: In his last State of the Union address, President Barack Obama said he is putting Vice President Joe Biden in charge of an effort to find more cancer treatments in what has been called a “moonshot” approach.

“Let's make America the country that cures cancer once and for all,” Obama said.

Health policy took a backseat to other topics at Tuesday night's speech, but Obama took time to speak about Biden's earlier pledge to work for a cancer cure and also called for the strengthening of Medicare and precision medicine. Biden's oldest son, Beau, died from brain cancer last year.

Modern Healthcare: In his last State of the Union address, President Barack Obama said he is putting Vice President Joe Biden in charge of an effort to find more cancer treatments in what has been called a “moonshot” approach.
“Let's make America the country that cures cancer once and for all,” Obama said.
Health policy took a backseat to other topics at Tuesday night's speech, but Obama took time to speak about Biden's earlier pledge to work for a cancer cure and also called for the strengthening of Medicare and precision medicine. Biden's oldest son, Beau, died from brain cancer last year.

Modern Healthcare: In his last State of the Union address, President Barack Obama said he is putting Vice President Joe Biden in charge of an effort to find more cancer treatments in what has been called a “moonshot” approach.

“Let's make America the country that cures cancer once and for all,” Obama said.

Health policy took a backseat to other topics at Tuesday night's speech, but Obama took time to speak about Biden's earlier pledge to work for a cancer cure and also called for the strengthening of Medicare and precision medicine. Biden's oldest son, Beau, died from brain cancer last year.

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