Biden's "Moonshot" Cure to Cancer a Call to Action
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Decades after President Richard Nixon declared "war on cancer," 600,000 Americans die from it every year. Vice President Joe Biden is guarding against unrealistic expectations with a "Moon Shot" aimed at doubling the rate of medical progress rather than promising a cure.
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| 0:00.0 | Join left-right and center host Bob Shear for his new podcast, Shear Intelligence. The twice-monthly |
| 0:07.2 | podcast features thinkers and trendsetters in conversation with one of political journalism's leading voices. |
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| 0:33.3 | this is To the Point. Joe Biden's moonshot and cancer politics. |
| 0:42.3 | Hello again, I'm Armin Alany, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International, a daily look at the issues Americans care about most. |
| 0:48.3 | Cancer takes hundreds of different forms and varies from person to person. |
| 0:51.9 | The vice president says he can't promise a single cure. |
| 0:55.3 | Instead, his moonshot is aimed at doubling the rate of progress |
| 0:58.6 | toward prevention and treatment by replacing competition with collaboration. |
| 1:02.8 | When cancer researchers don't share information, |
| 1:05.7 | promising work can be lost in what scientists call the Valley of Death. |
| 1:09.6 | With profit-making companies entitled to guard their |
| 1:12.2 | secrets, we'll hear how a master politician is coping with cancer politics. Today's talking point, |
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