During his speech marking the first 100 days of his mandate, the President of the United States made a strong commitment to the fight against cancer.
- One in five people will suffer from cancer in their lifetime.
- Breast, lung and colon cancer are the most detected in the world.
“We are on the verge of a breakthrough.” In his speech marking the first 100 days of his mandate, Joe Biden, who surprises everyone with his activism, was very incisive in the fight against cancer. “Let’s put an end to cancer as we know it!”, he notably exclaimed.
Much applauded, the President of the United States thus proposed, in general terms, to launch a new research policy against the disease. It must be said that Joe Biden has a painful relationship with this terrible pathology, which took away his adored son Beau, who died in 2015 of brain cancer at only 46 years old.
A cancer unit
When he was Barack Obama’s vice-president, Joe Biden had already been placed in charge of a cancer control unit, aimed at coordinating the various US state services in research and care.
Last Thursday, February 4, our President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron also unveiled his new ten-year strategy for the fight against cancer (2021-2030) in France. Endowed with new budgetary resources, it aims to significantly reduce the burden of cancers in the daily life of the French.
19 million new cases of cancer were diagnosed in 2020, according to the International Health Organization (WHO).
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