Biden forming nonprofit to focus on cancer issues after leaving White House
Outgoing Vice President Joe Biden will continue to advocate for changes in cancer research and treatment once he leaves political office by creating a new nonprofit organization.
“I’m going to begin a national conversation and get Congress and advocacy groups in to make sure these treatments are accessible to everyone, including these vulnerable underserved populations, and that we have a more rational way of paying for them while promoting innovation,” Biden said in a Washington Post interview.
Biden was put in charge of President Barack Obama’s cancer “moonshot” after his son Beau died of brain cancer in 2015. He plans on continuing the objectives of that initiative—like finding new ways to improve oncology treatment—while expanding the mission with new priorities, like lowering the cost of cancer drugs.
Pharmaceutical companies are already taking notice of Biden’s plans. Read the full article below:
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