DCI Oncologists Blaze the Trail
Last month (October 24, 2022), three Duke Cancer Institute faculty in the Department of OB-GYN, Division of Gynecologic Oncology — Brittany Davidson, MD; Haley Moss, MD, MBA; and Angeles Alvarez Secord, MD, MSc — and a DCI faculty member in the Department of Medicine, Division of Population Health Sciences (Arif Kamal, MD, MBA, MHS) participated in national-level events under the auspices of the White House Cancer Moonshot Initiative.
First launched in 2016 by the Obama administration and led by then-Vice President Joe Biden to “accelerate scientific discovery in cancer, foster greater collaboration, and improve the sharing of cancer data,” the Cancer Moonshot was reignited in February 2022 by President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden, Ed.D. The new goals are to “reduce the cancer death rate by half within 25 years and to improve the lives of people with cancer and cancer survivors.” (The Cancer Moonshot was not active during the Trump administration.)
In October, the focus was on breast and gynecologic cancers.