Noted This Week

President Joe Biden’s Cancer Cabinet met to present and discuss new Cancer Moonshot initiatives aimed at halving the death rate from cancer by 2047. The announcements included word of $240 million investment from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to accelerate innovative projects to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer; a program to pioneer technologies to make data more readily accessible; a nationwide network to bring cancer clinical trials to underserved communities; and an expansion of efforts to prevent smoking and increase smoking cessation.

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