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Biden Tours Cancer Research Hospital in Columbus, Ohio on Trip to Tout Stimulus
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4:09Now PlayingPresident Joe Biden on Tuesday toured the new, state-of-the-art Radiation Oncology Department at the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute at Ohio State University, before showcasing health insurance cost cuts in a speech.
The Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology, Dr. Arnab Chakravarti, told Biden that "this is a war on cancer and you're our commander in chief."
Biden was also shown new, large new pieces of radiation equipment.
One of the machines was called the "Mobetron," a device that provides flash therapy and high doses of radiation.
In 2011, Ohio State received a $100 million grant through the Affordable Care Act that supported construction of an improved radiation care facility.
The facility went from seeing 70 patients per day to over 300 patients, with the increased numbers of patients coming primarily from underprivileged groups and from remote rural communities. The new FLASH technology—a highly targeted form of proton therapy—has taken traditional treatments from 6-8 weeks down to 1 week.
The president also noted the role that dogs can play in detecting cancer and said in an aside to the press: "Dogs can help cure cancer. Not a joke ... it's a fascinating thing."
In response to a reporter's question, Biden said he was "mostly hopeful," with the developments in treating cancer, "because I don't want to see anybody go through what my son did."
Tuesday marks the 11th anniversary of then-President Barack Obama signing the Affordable Care Act.
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