Alert

As an anti-cancer advocate, I was happy to hear a Senate subcommittee proposed a $2 billion funding increase for the National Institutes of Health, including a $216 million increase for the National Cancer Institute.

Sen. Roy Blunt played a major role in setting aside that cancer research funding, and I’d like to thank him for his continued support.

Thanks to advancements in research, cancer isn’t always a death sentence anymore. People are surviving and thriving beyond their diagnosis. But our work is far from over, as this disease still kills hundreds of thousands in our country every year.

With stable, dependable funding from Congress, we can make sure researchers have the support they need to find more treatments and save more lives. The funding increase supported by Sen. Blunt is an important first step.

Senator, your efforts mean so much to people like me. I hope you’ll keep working with your fellow members of Congress to find more resources for cancer research.

Verlee Gilkerson

Volunteer

American Cancer

Society Cancer

Action Network

Kearney