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Cancer Center Supports Moonshot Initiative
Earlier in 2016, President Barack Obama tasked Vice President Joe Biden with heading a national effort to end cancer as we know it. The result was the Cancer Moonshot, a nationwide initiative charged with doubling the rate of progress toward a cure and making a decade worth of advances in cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment in five years. On June 29, the Vice President convened nearly 400 cancer researchers, oncologists, nurses, patients, advocates and others in Washington, D. C., and more than 7,000 more came together at hospitals, community care centers, businesses, and in family rooms at more than 300 local summits across all 50 states. Cancer Center director Ed Partridge, M. D., participated in one of the panels in Washington, D. C., and the Cancer Center is proud to be a partner in this bold and exciting program. To learn more visit, whitehouse. gov / cancermoonshot.
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