English subtitles for clip: File:2016-10-29 President Obama's Weekly Address.webm

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The Vice President: Hi everybody,

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This is Joe Biden.

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I delivered a report to
President Obama laying out

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how far we've come since
he put me in charge of the

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Cancer Moonshot back in
January-and a real vision

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of where we need to go in
the immediate future to:

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do in five years what
would otherwise take ten;

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inject a sense of urgency
into the fight against

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cancer; and change the
culture and reimagine

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our system to win.

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When President Nixon
declared war on cancer in

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1971, he had no army, no
resources, and no clear

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strategy to win.

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But after 45 years
of progress, funding

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research, training
scientists and physicians,

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and treating millions of
patients-we now have the army.

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We now have
powerful new tools.

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And with this Moonshot, we
now have a clear strategy

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for the road ahead.

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It matters because there's
a consensus that we're at

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an inflection point-with
science, medicine, and

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technology advancing
faster than ever and

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offering real promise.

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But we can't play by the
rules of 1971-in 2016.

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Just five years ago,
immunotherapy-using the

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immune system to kill
cancer cells while

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protecting healthy
ones-wasn't taken seriously.

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Now it is and it's
offering real hope.

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Decades of research has
accumulated huge amounts

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of data-but it's not
shared, it's hard to

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understand, and often not
accessible to researchers

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and the public.

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But now we're in the
position to break down

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silos to change that.

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because we have an enormous capacitity with computing

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capabilities to take millions of pieces of data

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and analyze it.

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We can do a million billion caclculations per second now.

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And the Moonshot vision
report reflects what Jill

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and I have learned after
meeting with thousands of

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cancer patients and their
families, advocates,

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physicians, researchers,
philanthropists,

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technology leaders, and
heads of states about

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what's happening now
and what we need to do.

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It's everything from
enhancing prevention

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efforts, expanding access
to care, and forging an

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international commitment
to this fight.

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This week I also released
a report from the Cancer

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Moonshot Task Force-
the team I'm leading to

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reimagine the federal
government's fight against

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this dreaded disease.

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It touches almost every
corner of government.

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For example, you'd expect
the National Institutes of

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Health to be involved in
researching radiation

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therapy for
cancer patients.

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But would you expect
NASA to be involved?

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Nobody in the world knows
more about radiation and

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its effects on the human
body than NASA, whose

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scientists are constantly
finding ways to protect

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our astronauts from
harmful radiation in space.

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Now, thanks to the
Moonshot, the National

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Institute of Cancer will
use that knowledge to help

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cancer patients.

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Here's another
great example.

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Right now, only 4% of
adult cancer patients are

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enrolled in
clinical trials.

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Why?

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Most patients-and even
doctors-don't know

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where to go.

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And it's a problem for
drug companies because

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they don't have enough
patients to generate the

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research, find new
breakthroughs, and get

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them to patients.

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But now thanks to the
work of the Presidential

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Innovation Fellows-some of
the top technology minds

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who left Silicon Valley
to work in the White

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House-anyone can go to
Trials.Cancer.Gov, type in

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real words like "breast
cancer," a zip code, or an

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age, and more easily find
a list of clinical

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trials nearby.

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And another thing that's
happening that didn't

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before is the private
sector is also reimagining

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what it can and should do.

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In just the last few
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public and private sector
commitments have been made

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from companies like
Microsoft and Amazon.

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IBM, for example, came to
us and offered Watson, its

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supercomputer, to partner
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Defense, and the VA.

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Now, a veteran at Walter
Reed can get her cancer

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genome or tumor sequenced
and then Watson will

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search all known specific
therapies that would

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target that cancer-and
deliver it right to the

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patient and doctor.

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Folks, most of you assume
we've already been doing this.

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We weren't before,
but now we are.

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And the Moonshot is about
all of us doing our part.

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Visit Cancer.Serve.Gov
to learn how you can

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volunteer to help your
loved ones, friends,

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and neighbors.

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In our fight against
cancer-we must be

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unwilling to postpone-for
the loved ones we've lost

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and the ones we can save.

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Thanks, and have
a great weekend.