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2008 War on Cancer Bill Aims to Improve Research, Treatment and Follow-up Care

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PJ Hamel

PJ Hamel

Sun, October 05, 2008

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What do U.S. Senators Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) have in common?Not their choice of which Presidential candidate to stump for, certainly. Not gender. Not geography. But they do have a common interest: cancer. Senator Kennedy for obvious reasons: he has an inopera...
10/12/08 7:46am

PJ, this sounds like a great bill.  I especially like the part about increased patient education and reduction of disparities in access to patient care.  What I find especially sad about cancer is that so many people die despite what we already know.  I believe that research into cures and better treatments will eventually make a difference, but too many people don't know about cancer symptoms and/or don't have access to good health care, and they are dying NOW.  Anything that this bill can do to solve that deserves our support.

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