{"id":131451,"date":"2022-02-07T12:56:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T12:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=131451"},"modified":"2022-02-07T13:01:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T13:01:17","slug":"cancer-moonshot-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/cancer-moonshot-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer moonshot\u2019 project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question- What is the goal of \u2018cancer moonshot\u2019 programme launched by US?<\/strong><br>a. Diagnosing cancer patients<br>b. Medical aid to cancer<br>c. bringing down cancer death rates by 50 per cent<br>d. None of the above<br><strong>Ans : C<br>Related Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On the 2nd of February, 2022 US President Joe Biden <strong>re-initiated the \u2018cancer moonshot\u2019 programme.<\/strong><\/li><li>The goal of this project bringing down cancer death rates <strong>by 50 per cent<\/strong> by the year 2047 in light of the progress made in cancer therapeutics, diagnostics and patient-driven care.<\/li><li>The programme was launched first in 2016 by Biden, when he was the Vice President, during the final year of the Barack Obama administration.<\/li><li>The launch came a year after Biden lost his eldest son and a veteran of the Iraq war, Beau Biden to brain cancer in 2015. He was just 46 years old.<\/li><li>\u201cMoonshot\u201d evokes the space race first triggered by president John F Kennedy in 1962 during the Cold War, when he took up the challenge of sending a man on the Moon before the Russians could.<\/li><li>His declaration led to the Apollo 11 mission, resulting in the first footsteps taken on the Moon in 1969.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-what-is-joe-bidens-cancer-moonshot-project-7755668\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-what-is-joe-bidens-cancer-moonshot-project-7755668\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question- What is the goal of \u2018cancer moonshot\u2019 programme launched by US?a. Diagnosing cancer patientsb. Medical aid to cancerc. bringing down cancer death rates by 50 per centd. None of the aboveAns : CRelated Facts On the 2nd of February, 2022 US President Joe Biden re-initiated the \u2018cancer moonshot\u2019 programme. The goal of this project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":131452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131454,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131451\/revisions\/131454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}