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The Biden-Harris Administration Restarted Cancer Moonshot Initiative to Reduce the Cancer Death Rate

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February 2, 2022

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President Biden reinvigorated the Cancer Moonshot initiative, with the aim of reducing the death rate from cancer by at least 50 percent over the next 25 years. The program promises to focus on addressing environmental exposures that cause cancer by cleaning up pollution, ensuring clean water, and more. EPA will be part of the group of agencies tasked with spearheading the initiative (the “Cancer Cabinet”). EPA also released a radon action plan to reduce radon-related cancer deaths, and acknowledged that low-income residents and residents of color are less likely to have their homes tested for radon than others, making it a health equity challenge.