Wednesday, November 14, 2007

SUPPORT CANCER RESEARCH FUNDING!

ASK YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVE TO OVERRIDE PRESIDENT’S VETO

President Bush has just vetoed legislation that would provide funding for critical cancer research!

We need your help! Please write your U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator and tell them to override President Bush’s veto of H. R. 3043, the Labor/ HHS /Education appropriations measure. This measure contains important money for both National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Cancer Institute ( NCI ) as well as funding for patient navigators. Over the last four years, cancer research funding has fallen more than 10 percent in real dollars, forcing reductions in research grants and critical clinical trials. This measure contains a 3.1% increase for NIH and 2.7% increase at NCI . The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society strongly supports an increase in federal funding for both the NIH and the NCI in FY 2008. The bill also contains $4 million to fund the national Patient Navigator Program. This will enable “patient navigators” around the country to help individuals gain access to and find their way through the health care system.

Finding cures requires research funding. Please help us advance the pace of research to those cures by writing your representatives and urging them to override the President’s veto of this funding bill. A draft letter – which you can personalize – along with the means to send it are at the Society’s Legislative Action Center.

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