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Cancer Center Supports Moonshot Initiative
Earlier in 2016 , President Barack Obama tasked Vice President Joe Biden with heading a national effort to end cancer as we know it . The result was the Cancer Moonshot , a nationwide initiative charged with doubling the rate of progress toward a cure and making a decade worth of advances in cancer prevention , diagnosis and treatment in five years . On June 29 , the Vice President convened nearly 400 cancer researchers , oncologists , nurses , patients , advocates and others in Washington , D . C ., and more than 7,000 more came together at hospitals , community care centers , businesses , and in family rooms at more than 300 local summits across all 50 states . Cancer Center director Ed Partridge , M . D ., participated in one of the panels in Washington , D . C ., and the Cancer Center is proud to be a partner in this bold and exciting program . To learn more visit , whitehouse . gov / cancermoonshot .
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