The White House has declared April 2024 as Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Month. Jody Hoyos, CEO of the Prevent Cancer Foundation in Alexandria, Virginia, discusses the significance.

White House unveils CancerX innovation accelerator, new funding for cancer screenings on Moonshot anniversary By Heather Landi Feb 2, 2023 4:18pm ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Dr. Eric Lander, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, on the Biden administration's plan to cut the cancer death rate by 50% in 25 years.

On March 21, 1973, White House Counsel John Dean confronted President Richard Nixon about the growing Watergate scandal. "We have a cancer — within, close to the presidency, that's growing ...

President Joe Biden on Wednesday will reignite the White House's "Cancer Moonshot," an Obama-era initiative aimed at accelerating the nation's rate of progress in the fight against cancer.

The White House cancer moonshot initiative is a national effort reignited by President Biden in 2022 to “end cancer as we know it.” The initial effort, launched in 2016 by former President ...

The White House also announced that the Health Resources and Services Administration is awarding $10 million to improve access to cancer screenings to improve early detection.

White House To Request $1 Billion For Cancer 'Moonshot' : The Two-Way President Obama plans to ask Congress for $755 million in cancer-research funding in his 2017 budget. That's in addition to ...

The White House outlines efforts to end shortages of three key generic chemotherapies. ... Carboplatin, cisplatin, and methotrexate are three of 15 cancer drugs in shortage in the United States.

The White House is framing the law as a boon to President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot, which aims to reduce the death rate from cancer by at least 50% over the next 25 years.

We can end cancer as we know it," Biden said in his announcement at the White House on Wednesday. "This can really be an American moment," the president said, in which the U.S. proves to the world ...

If Joe Biden reaches the White House, he will have more direct experience with cancer than most presidents. His eldest son, Beau Biden, died in 2015, at 46 from glioblastoma, the most aggressive ...