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    On September 13, during a meeting of the Cancer Cabinet, President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden announced a $240 million investment to accelerate advances in cancer-related projects, with the aim of improving treatments and reducing cancer mortality over the next 25 years. The funding, which was awarded through the newly launched Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), will go to researchers and innovators investigating effective approaches to cancer prevention, detection,

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    Several recent studies have shown an increasingly disturbing trend: the incidence of early-onset cancers—those diagnosed in individuals younger than age 50—is on the rise, and not just in the United States but globally as well. Worldwide, in 2019, there were a reported 1.19 million new cases of cancer among adolescents and young adults (AYAs), aged 15 to 39, and approximately 425,000 deaths. 1 Although considered a rare occurrence in the United States, cancer in this age group has risen by nearly 30%

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