Cancer Moonshot

Purpose "The National Cancer Moonshot will work to accelerate these research efforts and break down barriers to progress by enhancing data access, and facilitating collaborations with researchers, doctors, philanthropies, patients, and patient advocates, and biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. The initiative aims to bring about a decade’s worth of advances in five years, making more therapies available to more patients, while also improving our ability to prevent cancer and detect it at an early stage." Bottom line: this is about funding research, but the whole oncology ecosystem will be affected

Priorities Prevention and Cancer Vaccine Development Early Cancer Detection Cancer Immunotherapy and Combination Therapy Genomic Analysis of Tumor and Surrounding Cells Enhanced Data Sharing Oncology Center of Excellence Pediatric Cancer

Vice President’s Listening Tour President-Elect, Susan Schneider introduced to Vice President Biden at Duke University ONS members have participated in roundtables held at: Duke University: CEO Brenda Nevidjon, MSN, RN, FAAN Huntsman Cancer Institute: Kathi Mooney, PHD, RN, FAAN University of California, San Francisco: Christine Miaskowski, PhD, RN, FAAN Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle: Angelique Richard, PhD, RN

Moonshot Blue Ribbon Panel Deborah Mayer, PhD RN AOCN® FAAN Only nurse on the panel Panel reports to the NCI National Cancer Advisory Board and coordinates the working groups Working groups formed for each priority to define more specifically the emphasis for that priority

Other Key Oncology Nurse Appointment National Cancer Advisory Board Deborah Watkins Bruner, RN, PhD, FAAN NCI Board of Scientific Advisors Carol Ferrans, PhD, RN, FAAN

How Did This Happen? Staff work immediately following the State of the Union Access to the Vice President’s staff through Hart Health, ONS health policy consultants Expedient responses to the Vice President’s staff Promotion of ONS nurse researchers at the roundtable sites Counsel from a key relationship on how best to nominate nurses for the Blue Ribbon Panel Not waiting to be invited

Implications of Moonshot for ONS Members Nurse Researchers ONS is advocating for equitable access to research fund Goal is to have at least one nurse researcher on each working group Members in clinical care delivery “making more therapies available to more patients, while also improving our ability to prevent cancer and detect it at an early stage” Knowledge needed by oncology nurses Increased clinical trials

What You Can DO Submit ideas and insights to the Blue Ribbon Panel: Thru: CancerResearchIdeas.cancer.govCancerResearchIdeas.cancer.gov Call: Cancer

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