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From YouTube: President Biden Delivers Remarks on the Cancer Moonshot and the Goal of Ending Cancer as we Know It
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President Biden Delivers Remarks on the Cancer Moonshot and the Goal of Ending Cancer as we Know It
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We're
so
happy
to
have
mayor
wu,
mayor,
landrieu,
senator
markey,
administrator,
becerra,
governor
baker,
secretary
walsh,
and
so
many
members
of
the
massachusetts
delegation
with
us
we're
grateful
for
your
support
of
the
library
over
many
years.
I
know
that
many
of
you
and
the
state
and
local
officials
here
worked
with
closely
with
my
uncle
teddy
for
the
good
of
this
commonwealth
and
that
you
all
share
my
father's
love
of
politics.
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When
president
kennedy
gave
his
speech
at
rice
university,
the
united
states
had
only
four
short
manned
space
flights,
the
longest
less
than
five
hours.
President
eisenhower
and
cold
war
experts
said
we
should
concentrate
on
developing
satellites
and
missiles
to
beat
the
soviets
instead
of
going
to
the
moon,
and
there
were
other
reasons
not
to
do
it.
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But
president
kennedy
understood
the
power
of
the
idea,
and
over
time,
along
with
his
inaugural
address,
is
called
to
service.
The
moonshot
speech
has
become
perhaps
his
best
known
legacy
the
vision,
the
purpose,
the
courage
it
embodied
has
inspired
each
generation
to
take
on
hard
challenges
and
provides
a
metaphor
to
guide
us
as
we
face
adversity
in
our
own
lives.
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C
I
was
talking
earlier
about
how
your
family
had
a
very
difficult
time
in
my
life
when
I
first
got
to
the
center
as
a
29
year
old
kid
before
I
was
sworn
in,
I
lost
my
wife
and
my
daughter
and
my
two
boys
were
so
badly
injured
when
struck
by
the
tractor-trailer
and
your
family
was
there
for
me.
Now
I
really
mean
it:
your
family
was
there
for
me,
you
may
remember
some
of
it
and
I'll
never
forget
it.
They
got
me
and
my
boys
through
an
awful
lot.
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I'm
truly
honored
to
be
with
you
all
this
and
your
incredible
family
and
jack.
I
believe
your
your
generation
is
the
best
educated,
most
talented
generation
in
our
history
and
that's
the
reason
I'm
so
optimistic
about
the
future,
and
that's
not
hyperbole.
I
mean
it.
You
know
chateau.
Thank
you
for
sharing
your
powerful
story
and
thank
you,
mayor
wu,
for
the
passport
in
this
great
city
and
thank
you
to
health
and.
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Thank
you
to
the
members
of
the
massachusetts
delegation
from
the
house,
representatives,
presley
lynch,
keating
and
jack
jake.
I
should
say
auchenklas
and
and
laurie.
Thank
you
as
well
for
being
here,
you
have
beautiful
daughters
or
great
kids,
and
I
want
to
thank
all
of
you.
The
cancer
patients
survivors,
caregivers
and
don't
jump
I'm
up
there,
okay
on
all
for
all
the
leaders
of
science
and
medicine
for
being
here
today.
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And
in
choosing
to
go
to
the
moon,
president
kennedy
said
america
was
doing
so
quote,
not
because
it
was
easy,
but
because
it
was
hard
because
the
goal
will
serve
to
organize
and
measure
the
best
of
our
energy
skills,
because
that
challenge
is
one
that
we
are
willing
to
accept.
One
we're
willing,
not
one.
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It's
part
of
my
unity
agenda
that
I
laid
out
in
my
state
of
the
union
address
to
rally
the
american
people
to
work
together,
because
we
know
this
cancer
does
not
discriminate
red
and
blue.
It
doesn't
care
if
you're,
a
republican
or
a
democrat
beating
cancer
is
something
we
can
do
together
and
that's
why
I'm
here
today.
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We
learned
cancer
is
not
a
single
disease,
but
there
are
over
200
different
types
of
cancers
caused
by
different
genetic
mutations
in
our
cells
we
discovered
new
medicines,
therapies,
early
detection
and
prevention
measures
to
extend
and
to
save
lives
in
the
first
25
years.
Since
the
national
cancer
act,
the
death
rate
from
cancer
largely
remained
unchanged.
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Second,
only
to
heart
disease
for
too
many
cancer
patients
and
their
families,
instead
of
hope,
there's
bewilderment,
the
feeling
of
being
on
your
own
frustration.
As
hospitals
said,
doctors
can't
easily
share
your
medical
records
with
other
hospitals
and
doctors
to
help
find
answers,
even
when
every
minute
counts
having
to
advocate
for
even
the
most
basic
care
and
attention
for
your
loved
ones.
C
I
visited
many
of
the
major
cancer
research
centers
in
the
world
and
nowhere
no
matter
where
I
was
or
what
the
topic
at
hand
world
leaders
wanted
to
talk
to
me
about
our
cancer
moonshot.
That's
not
hyperbole!
That's
a
fact.
For
example,
pope
francis
convened
a
major
international
conference
on
cell
therapies
at
the
vatican
and
invited
me
to
speak
about
our
mission.
C
It
streamlined
the
food
and
drug
administration,
the
fda
by
creating
an
oncology
center
of
excellence,
so
new
cancer
treatments
can
be
evaluated
faster.
It
provided
seven
years
of
new
funding,
including
research
on
cancer,
therapies
and
the
disparities
trial
networks
to
discover
new
drugs
and
new
efforts
in
childhood
cancer.
C
As
president
of
the
united
states
senate,
I
presided
over
the
overwhelming
bipartisan
vote
and
watched
my
friend
mitch,
mcconnell
name
the
cancer
provisions
and
that
bill
after
my
son
beau
would
lost
his
life
to
that
disease
just
months
earlier
and
when
we
left
office
jill-
and
I
knew
we
had
to
keep
going
through,
keep
it
up.
So
we
initiated
the
biden.
C
People
would
share
their
stories
literally
in
grocery
stores,
airports,
rope
lines.
While
we
heard
stories
of
loss
and
despair,
the
stories
began
to
change
to
a
feeling
of
real
hope,
not
because
of
me
or
jill,
but
because
of
all
of
you
and
so
many
of
you
at
home,
doctors,
researchers
advocates
caregivers
patients
survivors
and
that's.
When
I
was
elected
president,
I
determined
to
supercharge
the
cancer
moonshot
as
a
central
effort
in
the
biden
harris
administration
in
february,
I
laid
out
our
plan
that
is
bold,
ambitious
and,
I
might
add,
completely
doable.
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C
It's
a
disease.
We
often
diagnose
too
late
and
have
too
few
ways
to
prevent
it.
In
the
first
place
where
there
are
stark
inequities
based
on
race,
disability,
zip
code,
sexual
orientation,
gender
identity
and
other
factors.
We
know
too
little
about
why
treatments
work
for
some
patients,
but
the
same
patient,
the
different
patient
with
the
same
disease.
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C
We
don't
share
enough
data
and
knowledge
to
bring
the
urgency
we
need
to
finding
new
answers,
but
for
each
for
each
of
the
ways
we
know
cancer.
Today
we
know
we
can
change
the
trajectory,
for
example,
to
prevent
cancers.
Scientists
are
exploring
whether
mrna
vaccine
technology
that
brought
us
safe
and
effective
covert.
19
vaccines
could
be
used
to
stop
cancer
cells
when
they
first
arise
to
target
the
right
treatments.
C
We
can
ensure
prevention,
detection
treatment,
reach
patients
in
urban,
rural,
suburban
and
tribal
communities,
so
they
have
equal
access
to
cancer
diagnostics,
therapeutics
and
clinical
trials
as
part
of
the
supercharged
moonshot
I'll
use.
My
authorities
as
president
to
increase
funding
to
break
law
jam,
break
log
jams
into
speed
breakthroughs.
C
I've
also
formed
a
new
cancer
cabinet.
That's
driving
a
whole
of
government
effort
to
unleash
every
possible
asset
within
our
power
from
nasa.
That
knows
more
about
radiation
than
any
doctor
does
to
the
defense
department.
That
has
the
ability
to
calculate
the
energy
department
to
a
million
billion
calculations
per
second
health
and
human
services.
C
We
did
to
reach
the
moon
that
actually
cures
cancers,
not
all
cancer
cancers
cures
for
cancers
once
and
for
all,
and
a
critical
way
to
do.
That
is
that
going
through
what
I
call
rph
advanced
research
project
agencies
for
health.
It's
based
on
darpa,
the
defense
department's
advanced
research
projects
agency.
C
C
C
Imagine
a
simple
blood
test
during
an
annual
physical
that
could
detect
cancer
early
with
the
chance
of
the
cure
best
imagine
getting
a
simple
shot
instead
of
a
grueling
chemo
or
getting
a
pill
from
a
local
pharmacy
instead
of
invasive
treatments
and
long
hospital
stays.
Imagine
treatments
beyond
cancer,
bold
approaches
to
reduce
maternal
mortality,
morbidity,
something
vice
president
harris
is
laser,
focused
on
and
imagine
artificial
redness
that
could
help
blind
people
see.
C
These
are
just
a
few
of
the
ideas
that
illustrate
the
amazing
potential
of
arpa
h.
When
president
kennedy
called
for
a
moonshot,
we
didn't
have
all
the
tools
and
experience
needed
with
our
cancer
moonshot.
Today
we
do
and
I'm
pleased
to
announce
my
selection
as
the
inaugural
director
of
rph,
dr
renee
wegerson,
who
is
here
today
doctor.
Where
are
you
stand
up.
C
A
leading
biomedical
scientist
a
decade
of
experience
leading
multiple
biotech
projects
at
darpa
and
by
the
way
it's
about
how
to
use
all
the
assets
we
have
all
of
them.
An
entrepreneur
in
synthetic
biology
says
you're
going
to
bring
the
legendary
darpa
attitude
and
culture
and
boldness
of
risk-taking
to
our
page
to
fill
a
critical
need.
Discoveries
that
save
lives,
change,
lives
and
often
start.
They
often
start
in
the
lab
bench.
C
But
then
those
basic
research
breakthroughs
need
to
be
tested,
scaled
and
brought
to
the
clinic.
This
may
require
unusual
partnerships
that
may
require
support
to
get
over
many
obstacles
that
exist.
That's
why
our
page
has
designed
what
is
designed
to
do
so.
The
advances
can
reach
all
americans
sooner.
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C
C
Thousands
of
women
are
taking
breast
cancer
treatments.
They
will
see
about
a
seven
thousand
dollar
a
year
savings,
but
that's
not
all
when
I
led
the
cancer
moonshot,
as
vice
president.
One
of
the
biggest
issues
I
talked
about
was
how
federally
funded
cancer
researchers
were
not
sharing
their
results
with
their
peers
or
the
public
because
they
wanted
to
have
the
answer.
C
As
I
mentioned
earlier,
we
made
federally
funded
cancer
research
more
available
to
any
patient
to
any
doctor
anywhere
for
free
and
today,
as
president,
we're
making
sure
that
transparency
applies
to
all
federally
funded
science
beyond
just
cancer,
and
this
summer
I
announced
the
new
head
of
the
national
cancer
institute,
boston's
own
boston
zone,
monica
bertaglia
bertinale.
Excuse
me
monica.
You
can
call
me
bidden
and
she's
here
today.
Where
are
you
monica
stand
up?
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C
C
I
hope
so
end
of
quote.
For
so
many
of
us.
That's
what
we're
trying
to
do
live
a
life
worthy
of
the
loved
ones.
We've
lost
the
loved
ones.
We
can
save
with
our
hope
and
absolute
courage
and
with
an
unwillingness
to
postpone
and
with
a
singular
purpose
for
ourselves
as
an
and
as
a
nation
president
kennedy
said
in
this
day
60
years
ago
we
set
sail
on
this
new
because
of
new
life-saving
knowledge
to
be
gained.