Bidens to tout Cancer Moonshot initiative in New Orleans
CBSN
New Orleans, Louisiana —President Biden and first lady Jill Biden are traveling to New Orleans Tuesday to tout the Biden Cancer Moonshot initiative, a week after the Department of Health and Human Services awarded nearly $9 million to improve access to cancer screenings and follow-up treatments in underserved communities – part of the initiative's effort to expand preventive cancer care.
Two years ago, the Biden administration relaunched the Cancer Moonshot initiative with two main goals — to prevent 4 million cancer deaths by 2047 and to improve the experience of people affected by cancer.
Since then, the initiative has announced collaborations with the private sector, among them an effort involving the country's largest health insurers, who have committed to expand access to services to help patients and their families in the U.S. navigate cancer treatments or screenings and $100 million for cancer prevention and treatment in Africa.
