Posted on 01/28/2016 1:26:21 PM PST by lowbridge
President Obama signed a presidential memorandum on Thursday creating a White House task force on cancer, the first step in what Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has called a "moonshot" to cure the disease, administration officials said.
The president appointed Mr. Biden to lead the panel, which will include representatives from at least 13 government agencies. The group's first meeting will be on Monday, officials said.
The emotional power behind the push will come from Mr. Biden, whose son Beau died last year after a battle with brain cancer. This month in his final State of the Union address, Mr. Obama cited Mr. Biden's "moonshot" comment, saying that "I'm putting Joe in charge of mission control."
Mr. Obama pledged in the speech to initiate a government wide push to cure the disease along the lines of the effort in the 1960s to send a man to the moon. The president made no specific promises but urged Americans to believe that a cure could be found.
"For the loved ones we've all lost, for the family we can still save, let's make America the country that cures cancer once and for all," Mr. Obama said.
Officials familiar with the president's actions said the task force would set a goal of doubling the rate of scientific progress toward prevention, treatment and a cure.
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When bo first heard “Moon shot”, his other head started ‘thinking’.
And ... things devolved from there.
Sorry Joe, to bring you into this (not really).
You have just made the most cogent observation here.
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More government waste...
Moonbat. Moonshot.
More like the research $$$ will go down a black hole..
“If you like your cancer doctor, uh, er, you, uh, can keep her (er, or him).”
B.O. Bama, 2106
“Cancer is now CURED!”
And the LIV will believe it to be so and bow at the alter of Odinga. The USA is done, just a matter of when the bullets fly.
I thought Nixon put big money into the Beat Cancer Cause fifty years ago - but he was a Republican, so it doesn’t count.....
Omfg
yeah because to date, nobody has been doing ANYTHING to try and find a cure, so Odumbo has to do something.
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Actually, viral and immunotherapy research show tremendous potential for actual cures for quite a few cancers.
Www.mdanderson.org currently has 12 moonshot research programs for various cancers and are looking to expand to others.
There is exciting research and clinical trials going on at MDA. I truly believe there will be a cure for metastatic prostate cancer before I need it.
There is also exciting work using gene therapy.
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Words, words -—— just words.
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