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Biden To Push Lame-Duck Congress For Cancer 'Moonshot' Funding
The vice president will deliver his final report, outlining the challenges that face cancer researchers in its goal to make a decade鈥檚 worth of progress against the disease in just five years.
Vice President Biden is expected to tell President Obama on Monday that the administration鈥檚 鈥渃ancer moonshot鈥 effort infused new urgency in the fight against the disease but that formidable challenges remain, including a lack of coordination among researchers, an 鈥渁ntiquated鈥 funding culture and unacceptably slow dissemination of important information about new treatments. (McGinley, 10/17)
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