Biden, in a statement released January 13, promised federal funding, targeted incentives and increased private-sector coordination in support of the program, but also noted: “Data and technology innovators can play a role in revolutionizing how medical and research data is shared and used to reach new breakthroughs”.
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Sellers says there is a deluge of data on cancer; but right now, not all of it is easily shared or interpreted.
With his cancer research initiative announced publicly, he put Vice-president Joe Biden to spearhead the efforts.
As one of his final acts as vice president, Biden has resolved to break down the silence that he says is pervasive in the world of oncologists, scientists and benefactors. About 600,000 people will die of the disease this year.
Biden says when you are engaged with someone affected by something like cancer, you do everything possible to learn as much as you can about the fight.
During the media teleconference, NIH Director Francis S. Collins declined to say whether Obama will devote even more money to cancer programs in his upcoming budget, but he told reporters to “look closely and see what kind of resources are attached” when the plan comes out next month.
“There’s cancer politics”, Biden said.
As for the results, Biden, said, “I’ve never been so optimistic in my life”.
During a meeting in Washington last week between cancer researchers and Biden’s staff, the scientists suggested a plan for advancing the promising field of genome sequencing, the New York Times reported.
“Our goal is to dramatically reduce cancer mortality through prevention, early detection and treatment”, explains Dr. Ron Dephino.
Biden, who keeps a home in Greenville, has said the issue is “personal” to him after the loss of his 46-year-old son, Beau, Delaware’s former attorney general.
The goal, he says, is simple: double the rate of progress, making a decades worth of advance in five years. “That’s just not realistic”, said Dr. George Demetri, a Harvard Medical School professor and researcher at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute who met with Biden’s staff.
Biden acknowledged that some cancers can’t be cured, insisting he wasn’t naive. Republican interest in the economic and scientific benefits of investments in medical breakthroughs is “clearly consistent with the kind of a “moon shot” that the vice president has talked about”, Earnest said.
In addition to his work to increase cancer research funding, Fattah has been the key champion in Congress for strengthening our understanding of the human brain and investing federal dollars towards neuroscience research as a means to find cures and treatment for brain disease and disorders, including brain cancer.
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Biden has already been meeting with a range of cancer researchers and others, but the State of the Union on Tuesday marked the formal announcement that Biden is “in charge of mission control” in the anti-cancer effort. Does it mean nobody dies from cancer? “I don’t know about that”, said Sen.
