How Washington can help our moonshot against cancer become a reality

Almost every single one of us is impacted by cancer. For one of us, it happened right after taking office as governor of Maryland. Just six months into the job of a lifetime, I was diagnosed with a very advanced and very aggressive form of cancer. As I took on this challenge and governed my state from a hospital bed, I had the fortune of meeting so many incredible people who were going through much tougher battles than mine. For the other one of us, cancer struck when it took the life of my best friend and former chief of staff far too soon.