You may think the title is silly and sweet, because you already know the "Cancer Moon Landing Project".
For most people who don’t know, the first time they hear about the "Cancer Moon Landing Program", the response is often "Do you want to go to the moon to treat cancer?"
In fact, it is harder for humans to overcome cancer than landing on the moon!
U.S. election and cancer moon landing plan
The 2020 US general election has been going on for a long time, and people all over the world are paying attention. Many American media have said that "Biden won the 2020 presidential election", and leaders of some other countries have also publicly issued statements congratulating Biden on his election as the President of the United States and becoming the 46th President of the United States.
The scientific community is also very concerned about this election.
When the Associated Press announced the statistical results, the top international journal Nature published an article for the first time: Biden won the election, and scientists can finally take a breath!
Image source: nature official website
Because, compared with Trump, Biden pays more attention to and value the new crown epidemic, and is more active in formulating the new crown epidemic policy.
In fact, at the beginning of Biden's election campaign, he received public support from a large number of American medical experts. Compared with Trump's negative actions on medical policies, in the eyes of medical experts, they are more willing to believe that after Biden's successful election as president, he will make positive changes to medical policies.
This includes not only his declared priority after taking office is to control the new crown epidemic in the United States, but also the "cancer moon landing plan" expected by the scientific community.
In this regard, many people are puzzled: Is Biden so arrogant after winning the election to send humans to the moon to treat cancer? Or is it to exile cancer to the moon through rockets, and stay away from humans ever since?
These idiotic dreams and nonsensical doubts are certainly not the "cancer moon landing plan."
In general, the "Cancer Moon Landing Program" is a large-scale program initiated by Obama in January 2016 to find cancer treatments, which is likened to the "Moon Landing Program". The "Blue Ribbon Advisory Committee" composed of American cancer experts recommended on September 7 that key investments should be made in ten areas such as immunotherapy, data sharing and the establishment of patient networks, so as to achieve the purpose of accelerating cancer research.
What is the relationship between Biden and the "Cancer Moon Landing Project"?
We are all saying that the 78-year-old Biden is making history. When Biden officially enters the White House in January next year, he will be the oldest president in American history.
Biden has been in politics since he was in his twenties. During his 44-year political career, there is a term that cannot be avoided from his life and career-cancer. Looking through Biden's previous life records, we find that Biden is a brain aneurysm patient, a family member of brain cancer, and a leader in the fight against cancer in the United States.
In 1987, Biden publicly announced his participation in the US presidential campaign.
In February of the next year, after Biden finished his lecture at the University of Rochester, when he returned to the hotel to rest, he was found unconscious in the hotel by his entourage, and the coma lasted more than 5 hours. Later, he was diagnosed with a cerebral aneurysm at St. Francis Hospital, and surgery is the best treatment for his survival.
While undergoing surgery, he also withdrew from the presidential election that year.
Biden’s brain tumor operation was performed at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington, DC. This is a microsurgical craniotomy. Medical experts assessed that the success rate of the operation was only 50%. Even if the operation is successful, it is very likely. Accompanied by brain damage, left behind incurable sequelae. In May of the same year, Biden underwent a second craniotomy, which was very successful.
In Biden's 2007 memoir "Keep Your Promises" mentioned, "The experience of illness has taught me an important lesson: Things related to life and death are the real emergency."
Two cases of brain aneurysm craniotomy, escaped from death, gave Biden more insights into life and paid more attention to the medical career in the United States.
But God seems to be deliberately teasing Biden, letting him experience a severe illness in his middle age, and let him experience the loss of a child in his later years.
When Biden was re-elected as the second vice president, his eldest son Bo Biden was diagnosed with grade IV glioblastoma, one of the most malignant brain tumors, and the prognosis was extremely poor. Level, the survival rate within two years does not exceed 30%.
As Biden’s eldest son, Bo Biden has extraordinary political talents. It was once thought that he was likely to follow his father’s footsteps and embark on the national political stage, becoming a powerful candidate for the position of governor of Delaware, and was regarded by the outside world. Heir to Biden.
In August 2013, Bo Biden received surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy at the Anderson Cancer Center in the United States. The Anderson Cancer Center is the world's top cancer treatment and research center, but the world's top medical team still cannot cure Bo Biden's cancer.
In 2015, Bo Biden had a recurrence of brain cancer and unfortunately passed away two weeks after being admitted to the hospital. He was only 46 years old.
Biden sweeps the grave for his eldest son who died of brain cancer after he was elected
Source: The Paper
The death of the eldest son was a severe blow to Biden.
Biden wrote in his memoir: "After Bo died, I don't think I will laugh anymore."
It was also during the treatment of the Anderson Cancer Center that the eldest son first learned about the "Cancer Moon Landing Plan" proposed by the Anderson Cancer Center and kept it in mind.
"Cancer Moon Landing Project" from birth to stranded
Biden suffered from cerebral aneurysm and his eldest son died of glioblastoma, making "cancer" the most tragic thing in Biden's life, but he has been brave enough to face it, making Biden an advanced A strong supporter of medical technology, especially breakthroughs in cancer treatment technology.
In 2016, during the Obama administration, the "White House Anti-Cancer Moon Landing Program Special Group" was established. The leader of this group was Biden, the then Vice President who advocated the "Cancer Landing Program". Immediately afterwards, Biden also officially announced that he would personally lead the "Cancer Moon Project", intending to integrate medical resources in the United States and complete the goal of conquering cancer in 12 years.
In Biden’s statement, he mentioned that in the past ten years, the medical community has made major breakthroughs in cancer genomics, immunotherapy, viral therapy, and combination therapy. What we need to do now is to break the data barrier. The progress of cancer research has been accelerated twice as fast. The overall goal of the "Cancer Moon Project" is to double the speed of cancer research and achieve breakthroughs within five years that would otherwise take ten years.
What this plan wants is not steady progress, but a huge leap forward on the road to the fight against cancer!
It is a pity that the ambitious "cancer moon landing plan" was shelved after Obama stepped down in 2017 and Trump took office, and it has not been properly continued by the Trump administration.
Although the "Cancer Moon Landing Project" he led has not been continued by the Trump administration, Biden has not stopped working on this project.
After stepping down as Vice President, Biden established a charity organization called "Biden Cancer Advocacy Association" in his own name to continue research in several key areas of the "Cancer Moon Project". These include data sharing, data standardization, cancer prevention, patient access opportunities, and clinical trials.
Conquering cancer is an important task for all mankind
The "Cancer Moon Landing Project" has six main directions:
1. Immunotherapy
2. Cancer vaccine
3. New treatments for childhood cancer
4. Highly sensitive early detection of cancer
5. Single cell genome analysis of cancer cells and tumor microenvironment cells
6. Strengthen data sharing
1. Immunotherapy
Tumor immunotherapy has always been regarded as the most potential treatment method for tumor treatment, and is highly regarded by the medical community as the most effective "weapon" in the fight against cancer.
However, tumor treatment has been facing a very difficult problem-tumor cells have specificity, each tumor has its own characteristics, resulting in no single method to treat all tumors, the specificity of tumor cells determines the difficulty of treatment.
As one of the main directions of the "Cancer Moon Landing Project", immunotherapy aims to use human immune cells to treat tumors in a personalized and targeted manner. If there is a breakthrough, tumor treatment will take a big step forward.
2. Cancer vaccine
Cancer vaccines are different from the vaccines we usually understand (such as HPV vaccines, influenza vaccines, etc.). The purpose of cancer vaccines is not to prevent cancer, but to treat and eliminate cancer cells in the body.
Cancer vaccines bypass the traditional need to identify tumor-specific immune targets and achieve the effect of direct and precise treatment of cancerous sites. It is more efficient than radiotherapy and can significantly reduce side effects on the human body. .
3. New treatments for childhood cancer
Childhood cancer is a rare disease, and the global research on childhood cancer is very limited. On the one hand, it is due to the lack of sample sources, and on the other hand, it is lack of government and social welfare funds.
The "Cancer Moon Project" included childhood cancer as one of its main focus areas, allowing more government and social funding to enter the field of childhood cancer research. The project aims to analyze the information of children's cancer genome, immune group, metabolome and other aspects, and conduct targeted drug screening.
4. Highly sensitive early detection of cancer
The WHO advocates "early diagnosis, early detection and early treatment" of cancer. However, because the early symptoms of cancer are not obvious, many patients are already in the late stage when they are discovered, which brings a heavy medical burden to patients and society.
At present, we have many early screening methods for a variety of cancers, such as early tumor biomarkers, but there is still a high false negative rate, and the effect of early cancer screening for ordinary healthy people is limited. The "Cancer Landing Project" aims to develop high-sensitivity early cancer screening methods, high-sensitivity screening of early cancer, to a large extent reduce the burden of individual patients and social medical care.
5. Single cell genome analysis of cancer cells and tumor microenvironment cells
Each type of cancer produces different gene mutations. Even the cancer cells in the same patient have individual differences. If the differences between cancer cells and the microenvironment are analyzed, it is of great significance for studying the heterogeneity and invasiveness of cancer.
In recent years, single-cell sequencing technology has made it a reality to analyze the differences between individual cancer cells due to its high-resolution features. The "Cancer Moon Landing Project" applies the latest single-cell transcriptome technology to enable humans to have more understanding of the heterogeneity of cancer cells.
6. Strengthen data sharing
There are many types of cancer, and there may be multiple tumors in a cancer patient's body. The scientific research ability of a team is limited. In the era of big data, the concept of data sharing is very important.
The "Cancer Moon Landing Project" integrates cancer research worldwide by building a sharing platform for cancer research, breaking information barriers, and accelerating cancer research.
The Cancer Moon Project is dedicated to tackling 12 types of cancer: leukemia, lung cancer, melanoma, ovarian cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, B-cell lymphoma, colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, glioblastoma, HPV-related cancers and high Risk of multiple new myeloma.
For the above 12 types of cancer, either there has not been any breakthrough research progress in the past few decades, or the survival rate of cancer is very low, which seriously threatens human life and health.
The Cancer Moon Landing Program starts from all aspects of anti-cancer, ranging from breakthroughs in anti-cancer treatment techniques, such as immunotherapy and combination therapy, cancer vaccines, early cancer screening, as small as anti-cancer care, and advocacy for strengthening data sharing, etc. Etc., from the occurrence of cancer to the ultimate treatment, the entire preventive treatment process has been carefully considered.
In recent years, precision medicine, which is favored by the medical community, has also been fully reflected in the cancer moon landing plan. According to the biological information and clinical signs of cancer patients, tailor-made clinical treatment plans are provided to patients. It can be said that precision medicine is The core medical theory of the Cancer Moon Project.
Humans have struggled with cancer for a long time. Despite the development of medicine to this day, we are still helpless with many cancers. Modern society is still filled with anxiety and fear about cancer. In view of Biden's experience and the determination to fight cancer he has shown to the world, he is likely to make up for the regret of the year after being elected president-restart the "cancer moon landing plan."
If the "Cancer Moon Landing Program" can be implemented well under Biden's tenure, it will not only benefit cancer patients in the United States, but it will also be a boon to all mankind.
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