With Biden’s departure in sight, advocates seek to preserve gains of Cancer Moonshot Angus Chen By Angus Chen Aug. 1, 2024

https://www.statnews.com/2024/08/01/biden-cancer-moonshot-future-funding-depends-presidential-election/?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8l3RN1C-9hLtJopkg00_omXBqzxe8TFC4QizbM8M1Jzj6GFV9R-dE70grXncBa9qA6zV1wAmEgUB5s5W5kwZkZJU-V_Q&_hsmi=318238048&utm_content=318238048&utm_source=hs_email What happens to Cancer Moonshot without Biden? Plus: What happens when you vape and smoke? We’ve got two bits of cancer news for you today, starting with a story by STAT’s Angus Chen on what might happen to President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot initiative once he’s out of office. “We stand a very good chance of continuing this momentum against cancer,” Karen Knudsen, the CEO of the American Cancer Society, told Angus. “We have to.” But could the initiative fade or get rebranded? Read more from Angus on the hope — and the trepidation — that researchers have going into the election. Meanwhile, a study published yesterday in the Journal of Oncology Research and Therapy found that people who both vape and smoke are four times more likely to develop lung cancer than those who only smoke. It’s the first study to provide evidence that smoking and vaping in combination is riskier than smoking alone, the authors wrote. The findings are based on a comparison between almost 5,000 people with lung cancer and 27,000 without in the Columbus, Ohio, area. https://www.gavinpublishers.com/article/view/vaping-smoking-and-lung-cancer-risk?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_djAK2lro9A_QdyDHw8tPZbw7o41Uuh_NsOw8TgxJ76LKbSm63_yies7bjISOPZqq0HOiNu3ijPYOiQQkj6WplNB07JA&_hsmi=318238048&utm_content=318238048&utm_source=hs_email