US vice president seeks to promote cancer cure research
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.029509
New York Times : For his last year in office, Vice President Biden is proposing a “moonshot” to cure cancer. However, cancer researchers say that a number of obstacles stand in the way of achieving that goal. Foremost is the fact that cancer is not one disease but hundreds, so there is no single cure. Furthermore, researchers have developed drugs and therapies that can attack specific mutations, but they are expensive and many insurance companies won’t pay for them. In addition, cancer researchers tend to avoid sharing their cutting-edge research, which means that work gets repeated, and there is little uniformity in the way data are collected and recorded. Nevertheless, Biden has managed to negotiate a funding increase for the National Cancer Institute of $264 million—the largest in a decade.
