The death of son Beau Biden from cancer spurred an effort by then U.S. Vice President Joe Biden to organize a “National Cancer Moonshot Initiative” to support research to “end cancer as we know it.”
A joint effort by the U.S. and China to fight cancer could represent a latter-day equivalent of the exchange of table tennis players between the two countries that led to a thaw in relations in the 1970s
Cancer patients are more vulnerable to contracting Covid-19, and have more than double the death rate from Covid-19 compared with patients without cancer