Ovarian cancer is a killer.It is the fifth
leading cause of death from cancer in women and the leading cause of death from
gynecological cancer. Death rate extrapolations for USA for Ovarian
Cancer: 13,626 per year, 1,135 per month, 262 per week, 37 per day, 1 per
hour.
If a man could be stricken with it, I wouldn't be
sending this email. Call please and pass it on. Thanks,
Amanda
From: The Ovarian Cancer National Alliance
[mailto:ocna@ovariancancer.org]
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 4:19
PM
To: Amanda Lang
Subject: Ovarian Cancer Research Funding
slashed in half -- call your Congressman and Senators
today!
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As a result of the Senate
mark-up, the Department of Defense's Ovarian Cancer
Research Program's funding has been slashed in half à ‚¬"
from $20 million to $10 million. Research
performed by this program is critical as it is solely
dedicated to performing research about ovarian
cancer.
However, if we act now, we can
work to help get $25 million as the final amount
appropriated. As Congress prepares to go into
conference where the House and Senate meet to finalize
appropriation levels, a Dear Colleague letter is being
circulated in both the House and the Senate urging the
leadership to take the funding level that was set in the
House -- $25 million.
Please help us make sure that
the Dear Colleague letter gets enough signatures to make
an impact. Easy instructions are provided to call
your Representative and two Senators and ask them to
sign on to the letter. PLEASE CALL EITHER TODAY
(Thursday, October 22nd) OR TOMORROW (Friday,
October 23rd)!!
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OpedNews volunteer from 2005 to 2013.
Amanda Lang was a wonderful member of the Opednews team, and the first volunteer editor, for a good number of years being a senior editor. She passed away summer 2014.
