5 January 2017 - Vice President Biden, who led the Obama administration’s “cancer moonshot” initiative, will create a nonprofit organisation to grapple with a broad range of cancer issues, including the high cost of cancer drugs, he said in an interview Wednesday.

“I’m going to begin a national conversation and get Congress and advocacy groups in to make sure these treatments are accessible for everyone, including these vulnerable underserved populations, and that we have a more rational way of paying for them while promoting innovation,” Biden said.

The new nonprofit group, Biden said, will focus on many “moonshot” issues, including the need to knock down “silos” in cancer research and share research data and medical records more widely, boosting participation in clinical trials, and finding new ways to improve treatment provided by community oncologists. He said he also wanted to work on reducing racial disparities in diagnosis and treatment.

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