President Biden’s Relaunch of Cancer Moonshoot and how it’s different.

It’s probably not.

These promises sound very much like those made by three previous presidents over the last 80 years.

Watch highlights from President Biden’s announcement today and then watch 3 short videos showing similar promises over the last 80 years.

Watch the video below on how the 2016 initiative has failed in it’s promise to end cancer.

Watch these videos of previous promises to end cancer.

1940 · President Roosevelt

“It is bringing to the people of the nation a message of hope. Many forms of the disease are not only curable but even preventable. We can all have faith in the ultimate result of these great efforts.”

1971 · President Nixon

“When the same kind of concentrated effort that split the atom and took man to the moon should be turned toward conquering this dreaded disease. Let us make a total national commitment to achieve this goal.”

2016 · President Obama

“Vice President Biden said, with a new moonshoot, America can cure cancer. Last month he worked with this congress to give scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the strongest resources they’ve had in over a decade. Let’s make America the country that cures cancer once and for all.”

2022 · President Biden

“We can make real progress toward ending cancer as we know it.”

https://www.whitehouse.gov/cancermoonshot/

• New website initiatives:

  • Cut the death rate from cancer by at least 50% over the next 25 years

  • We can make real progress toward ending cancer as we know it.