2024-08-14 15:27:42
Wednesday, March 14, 2024, 17:27
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Three and a half years of government, in the midst of a pandemic, is not enough to fulfill the dreams of a lifetime. Among those who Joe Biden wants to make sure when he becomes President of the United States, the personal one has fallen by the way to the one who plans to take his last breath in the six months of his dead mandate: “I will continue to fight to be make my cancer project a reality.” Moonshot to end cancer as we know it, because we can achieve it,” he announced when he resigned from his second term.
With that goal in mind, he interrupted his vacation on the Delaware coast to fly to New Orleans, where he announced a budget of $150 million in grants from the Center for Advanced Health Research Projects. With that money he wants to support eight research groups in the country that work to improve surgical techniques to remove cancerous tumors.
This touched Biden very deeply. Their eldest, Beau, died in 2015 at age 41 from a brain tumor. The then vice president was disappointed and resigned to run for office, leaving room for Hillary Clinton. Since he lost his wife and daughter in a car accident at the age of 29, the two children who survived the car accident are his reason for living. Of the two, Hunter Biden is the black sheep of the family. A living person, a drug addict and a self-confessed adulterer, all this has a history in which he is described in detail. Beau, on the other hand, is his father’s pride. He graduated in Law, volunteered in Kosovo, where he trained judges and prosecutors. He joined the army after the 9/11 attacks and fought in Iraq, where his father is believed to have contracted cancer from toxins released by the burning of chemical weapons at military installations.
He built a political career as Attorney General of Delaware, where he specialized in prosecuting sexual predators, rapes, adulterers, spousal or elder abuse, and other noble causes. He worked with the then Attorney General of California, Kamala Harris, who gained the president’s trust in part through that friendship. Photogenic, affable and politically astute, when he ran for governor of Delaware some saw in him a new Kennedy, with the support of his father’s political machine, only death took its toll on him through cancer.
A man on the moon
Months later, Barack Obama announced in the last State of the Union speech the launch of a national project “to eliminate cancer as we know it”, as ambitious as putting a man on the Moon, so he called it the Moonshot. He gave a billion dollars and gave it to the man who proposed it, his vice president Joe Biden.
Since then he has not let go of the challenge of wanting to avenge death. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, after cardiovascular diseases. According to the American Cancer Society, two million new cases of cancer will be diagnosed this year alone. More than 600,000 people will die from it. Experts believe that by taking access to medical innovations that have been successful, death can be reduced by 20% or 30%.
The importance of the President is to integrate prevention studies by including them at no cost in health insurance and increasing social awareness, in addition to promoting research. Only the attention given by the president to this issue would have put the country on the path to reduce cancer deaths by half, preventing four million deaths. “President Biden’s enthusiasm and commitment to this task has made a huge difference for the entire community,” said John Retzlaff, Chief Policy Officer at the American Association for Cancer Research.
During their visit to New Orleans, the president and first lady, focused on eliminating tumors like the one that killed their son Beau, visited the facilities of Tulane University, which the Government has given a grant of 22.9 million dollars to develop imaging systems and new technologies that individually visualize cells to remove on the surface of the tumor, to determine if there are more cancer cells before the end of the surgery. Seven other universities with research projects in this sense have received similar awards, from John Hopkins University in Baltimore to the University of California at San Francisco.
The cancer Moonshot project continues to receive funding during the administration of Donald Trump and enjoys the usual enthusiastic commitment from Kamala Harris, but it will be Joe Biden who receives the credit in history, especially of these last six months that reached the Moon.
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