We were thrilled to be a part of yesterday’s Cancer Moonshot Summit in Washington, DC. Attending the event, hosted by Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden at Howard University, was a real privilege.
What’s the Cancer Moonshot Summit?
In his final State of the Union address, the President tasked the Vice President with heading up a new national effort, the Cancer Moonshot. The ultimate goal is to double the rate of progress—to make a decade’s worth of advances in cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care in five years—to ultimately end cancer as we know it.
The goals of this effort cannot be achieved by one person, one organization, or one discipline. Solving the complexities of cancer will require the formation of new alliances to defy the bounds of innovation and accelerate the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and—ultimately—a cure. It’s going to require millions of Americans speaking up and contributing what they’re able.
The Cancer Moonshot Summit will be a venue to bring together all sectors that have a role to play in making progress on the Cancer Moonshot goals to share new ideas and launch new collaborations and actions.
At the Cancer Moonshot Summit, we discussed how the entire cancer system currently operates and how individuals and organizations can take action to change the status quo to advance progress for patients. It was an amazing opportunity to collaborate with other people whose passion is fighting cancer — from prevention to finding a cure to helping survivors thrive.
You can learn more about the Cancer Moonshot Taskforce and it’s seed funding.
Highlights from the Summit
“The Moonshot cannot be achieved by one person, one organization, one discipline, or even one collective approach. Solving the complexities of cancer will require the formation of new alliances to defy the bounds of innovation and accelerate the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and — ultimately — a cure. It’s going to require millions of Americans speaking up and contributing what they’re able. That’s what the Cancer Moonshot Summit is all about.” — Vice President Joe Biden
Prevention can save a whole hell of a lot more lives than anything we can do – @VP #cancermoonshot. #canserve pic.twitter.com/OA5AcKtbB6
— National Cancer Inst (@theNCI) June 29, 2016
"We need to beat cancer in a timely fashion. Meaning yesterday." – @VP #Canserve #CancerMoonshot
— IHadCancer (@ihadcancer) June 29, 2016
Individualized healthcare is not a luxury in cancer treatment. It's a necessity. #Summit4CI #CancerMoonshot #CancerResearch #ImmunoOncology
— Kevin Bradley (@KevJbradley) June 29, 2016
"I found that 1/3 of all #cancer deaths are due to malnutrition" – @savor_health https://t.co/mHu5KMyTmM #diet #nutrition #health
— racecancer (@racecancer) June 28, 2016
CDC is a leader in nationwide efforts to ease #cancer burden. See what we're doing https://t.co/b8DzGMPepx #CanServe pic.twitter.com/cxlBI346W7
— CDC Cancer (@CDC_Cancer) June 29, 2016
For #CancerMoonshot, @VP has sought out experts around the world to ask: Can we double the rate of progress in cancer research? #CanServe
— National Cancer Inst (@theNCI) June 29, 2016