The Cancer Moonshot At A Crossroads: Will The Next President Commit To The Effort To End Cancer?

The scientific community has diverse opinions on achieving the goals that Biden and Simon have established and how the army of cancer-fighting forces will get there. But most agree, certainly those who know Washington, that what they have done in such a short time, particularly when the political process in our nation is so polarized, is nothing short of phenomenal. In seven months, the vice president has managed to inspire a good many Americans, and with Simon, corral a national industry of ambitious, competitive and stove-piped researchers and their personal initiates into a living, breathing organization that exudes hope and excitement that ending cancer, or making it a manageable disease in the next decade is achievable.