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Cancer advocates gather to urge funding restoration
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Sep 20, 2006 10:05am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Memphis Commercial Appeal |
| News Date | Wednesday, September 20, 2006 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Thousands of Cancer Action Network volunteers, including some from Memphis and Shelby County, began arriving here Tuesday to lobby their congressmen about restoring funding for cancer research.
"Congress certainly recognizes the dread disease of cancer, but at the same time research is the only thing that's going to make a dramatic impact," said retired University of Tennessee dentistry professor Morris L. Robbins of Memphis.
Robbins and a group of 9th Congressional District residents plan to meet today with Rep. Harold Ford Jr., D-Tenn. Ford met with American Cancer Society CAN volunteers last week in Memphis and signed their Congressional Cancer Promise with its pledge to support restoration of research funding cuts and expanded prevention detection programs.
President Bush's nominee to the National Cancer Institute, John Niederhuber, told The New York Times last month that budgetary issues would likely require the agency to eliminate some programs. The president's proposed 2007 budget for the National Institutes of Health would stay the same as this year, but the cancer institute is slated for a $40 million reduction. |
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