"The Biden Cancer Initiative builds on the momentum of the Obama-Biden administration’s Cancer Moonshot effort. While still in office, Vice President Biden was called upon to lead a “Cancer Moonshot.” The language for this effort was specifically selected to elicit the memory of our nation’s 1969 effort to shoot for (and walk on) the moon—something that seemed nearly impossible at the time. The White House Cancer Moonshot had a clear, but sky-high, goal: to dramatically accelerate our ability to prevent, diagnose, and treat cancer. In fact, the program aimed to achieve a decade of progress in 5 years by engaging federal agencies and initiating programs to establish collaborations focused on transforming cancer research and care.
In establishing the Biden Cancer Initiative, Vice President Biden and Dr Jill Biden strengthened their commitment to bring together all stakeholders in the oncology space to reimagine how the government, academia, nonprofits, and the private sector can better organize their resources to improve cancer care. The initiative works closely with patients and patient organizations, cancer researchers, cancer centers, research universities, governments, private and philanthropic sectors, and organizations including the Academy of Oncology Nurse & Patient Navigators to identify and address the critical issues in cancer prevention, research, and care to drive new actions and collaborations to find cures.
We work with everyone from big pharma to small biotech. Patient advocacy groups to academic institutions. We’re trying to engage all stakeholders in the conversation to channel synergies into collaborations that create new approaches to old problems. It’s all about system change.
Our goal is to create a universal way in which people can share their data. We are reviewing the data-sharing models and identifying which ones have the best chance of scaling to a true data repository.
We’ve encouraged as many people as possible to go to the website and share their story as part of the #cancerFIERCE campaign.
While cancer is personal, the cancer experience is not isolated. We launched the #cancerFIERCE campaign to tell the collective cancer narrative through the prism of a broad range of cancer experiences.
#cancerFIERCE is a message of strength, resilience, determination, purpose, and hope. It celebrates the FIERCE that we know is in everyone touched by cancer—patients, families, caregivers, healthcare providers, researchers, and many more.
People don’t often think of themselves as inspirational, but after reading these stories, I can tell you they truly are."
Their....initiative, LOL. So, what have they accomplished.......list them, instead of people just earning easy money to come up with inspirational bulls*** about personal experiences.........yeah, " to identify and address the critical issues in cancer prevention, research, and care to drive new actions and collaborations to find cures." Cancerfierce huh....
Good stuff.
