Research Cures Cancer — Tell Congress
Posted by Kate Murphy on January 29th, 2008
Research is curing colon and rectal cancer.
When it’s found before it spreads, research has brought us better treatments to keep cancer from coming back. When it has spread, research is making more surgical cures possible.
And when it can’t be cured, people are living longer, better lives because of research that is sponsored by the federal government through the National Cancer Institute.
Even better, research prevents colorectal cancer and saves lives by finding new screening tools to discover pre-cancerous polyps before they ever become cancers.
But, research is threatened by reductions in government funding . . . seriously threatened. On the verge of new treatments, clinical trials are being cut
back. On the brink of learning how pathways in the cancer cell can be blocked and cancer stopped in its tracks, laboratory funding is being cut. Young researchers . . . the lifeblood of cancer progress . . . are entering other fields.
We’ve made progress . . . fewer people are being diagnosed with colorectal cancer and more are living beyond it . . . but it is not nearly enough.
Join C3’s advocates to tell Congress that we can win the war on cancer . . . but we have to fund it.
We’ll be Calling on Congress March 9th through March 12th.
On Tuesday, March 11th we’ll be going directly to Capitol Hill to tell Congress that research can cure colon and rectal cancer, that screening can prevent colorectal cancer, and that Congress needs to act now to make it happen.
On Sunday, March 9th and Monday, March 9th C3 will be helping advocates learn how to take that message to their members of Congress with the power that only people living with colorectal cancer have.
If you are a person with colon or rectal cancer, a survivor, or a family member of friend, please Call on Congress with us.
Registration time is short and space is limited.
We need to know by February 1st that you’ll be coming to Washington and joining our fight.
Register for Call on Congress today!
