title: Oncology Nurses and the Cancer Moonshot 2020.
abstract: When Vice President Joe Biden's son, Beau, died of a brain tumor in May 2015, the Vice President's grief was profound. Yet, his grief generated an idea, a big idea: Let's collaborate and focus the talent and resources in our country to eliminate cancer as we know it. When Vice President Biden shared his idea with President Barack Obama in the fall of 2015, not only did President Obama endorse the idea, he announced the National Cancer Moonshot Initiative during his January 2016 State of the Union Address. The goal is to double progress against cancer and break down silos that prevent science and industry from working together. The initiative centers around the development and implementation of new vaccine-based immunotherapies to target individual tumors based on their genomic signature.
authors.affiliation: University of Massachusetts-Boston.
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kennedy Sheldon
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D023281:Genomics; D006078:Government Programs / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007167:Immunotherapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology* / Q000628:therapy*; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009859:Oncology Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States
keywords: Cancer Moonshot 2020; advocacy; person-centered care; policy