Biden aims to reduce cancer deaths by 50% over next 25 years

By JOSH BOAK and ZEKE MILLER
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has set a 25-year timeline to cut the cancer death rate in half. It’s a lofty but perhaps unrealistic goal that is meant to “supercharge” an initiative started when he was vice president. Biden says, “This can really be an American moment to prove to ourselves and, quite frankly, the world that we can do really big things.” He spoke Wednesday to a crowd of lawmakers, administration officials, researchers and others at the White House. First lady Jill Biden spoke of how the death of the president’s older son Beau from brain cancer in 2015 had “stolen our joy.”