A day after announcing that he had prostate cancer, former President Joe Biden published on Monday that “cancer touches us all” – and now it has become a battle he fought for a more comprehensive decade.
He had previously led the efforts of the federal government to “end cancer as we know it” through Monchot “from cancer” a few months after his son, Bo Biden, died due to an Aromi dibgian tumor, a rare and aggressive form of brain cancer, in 2015.
Biden first He supervised the “moonshot” cancer in 2016 While the vice president during the era of former President Barack Obama. At that time, Congress allowed $ 1.8 billion in funding for the government’s research initiative for seven years with the aim of eliminating cancer.
In 2022, the President, in his capacity, re -launched the effort to reduce the death rate of cancer to half during the next quarter and end “cancer as we know it.” Cancer is a major cause of death all over the world, according to Global Health Organization.
“I adhered to this battle when I was a vice president. It is one of the reasons that make me frankly run for the presidency. It would be undoubtedly, now after I became president, this is a presidential priority, on the White House,” Biden said at the re -launch event in February 2022. The period.
President Joe Biden in the Ministry of Labor speaks December 16, 2024 in Washington.
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The initiative has improved the availability of cancer examination; It has established a “cancer treasury” that includes the private sector, institutions and academic institutions; The development of cancer research. The improvement of data sharing and more, according to White House fact paper.
Cancer Moonshot has supported 250 research projects, more than 70 programs and federations that helped achieve goals towards ending cancer, according to National Institute of Cancer. the The White House also boasts This initiative led 225 private, non -profit companies, academic institutions and patient groups to develop “new procedures and cooperation”.
President Joe Biden from the White House Oval Office in Washington speaks September 30, 2024.
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He said that Biden made the battle against cancer a major task in life. After Obama’s presidency, Biden and the former first lady Jel Biden founded a non -profit institution devoted to finding cancer treatment.
Biden said in 2022: “When we left his position, we knew and a generation that we should continue to continue, and we continued. Therefore, we started the Biden Cancer initiative. We focused on turning the moon into a movement, not just a shot, movement,” Biden said in 2022.
Biden’s office said on Sunday that he was diagnosed on Friday with prostate cancer, saying that although it was “a more aggressive form of the disease, it seems that the cancer is sensitive to hormones that allows effective management.”
Biden and his family “review treatment options with his doctors,” according to the statement.
Biden and his wife, Jill, said on Monday that they were thankful for “love and support”, which was received after the diagnosis of the former president.
“Like many of you, I and I learned that we are stronger in broken places,” I have posted on X. “Thank you for raising love and support.”
