What Biden's Presidency Will Mean for Cancer

Elie Dolgin • March 2, 2021

As vice president, Joe Biden was the cancer advocate-in-chief. As president, he has a different public health crisis to deal with—COVID-19—but given Biden's passion for cancer research, many expect he will build on the previous Moonshot initiative with another push to accelerate the pace of progress in cancer control.

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