Cancer is among the top 10 leading causes of death in the United States, so it affects a huge number of American families. But for President Biden, it’s a highly personal issue, as his son Beau died of brain cancer in 2015 at the age of 46. That makes Biden’s announcement Wednesday, that his White House will reboot the “cancer moonshot” program, all the more notable.
You might remember the moonshot from Biden’s days as vice president under former President Barack Obama. In 2016 — a year after Beau Biden’s death — Obama put his then-vice president in charge of the Moonshot Initiative to “make a decade’s worth of advances in cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, in five years.”
