evidence: Launching the Cancer Moonshot - In his 2016 State of the Union address, President Obama called on Vice President Biden to lead a new, national "Cancer Moonshot" to dramatically accelerate efforts to prevent, diagnose, and treat cancer -- to achieve a decade’s worth of progress in five years. By leveraging decades of scientific understanding from the study and care of cancer, creating and aggregating immensely powerful datasets, and developing unprecedented science and technological capabilities, we as a Nation are positioned to end cancer as we know it.