Do you think NCI is pivoting and looking at this and putting more emphasis on it?
Again, that gets me to another question about causes and the rapid growth of certain diseases.
I don't have any problem with the $500 million, but I----
Yes, right.
It's very, very good.
You tell me where to get the money, and----
I am impatient, just as you are--frustrated, as you are--about this terrible disease of pancreatic cancer.
Senator Specter championed and got in there and was on us all the time to make sure that it was not dropped.
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I think it's important to inform patients, from the beginning, help them understand what you're going through.
this whole CAN that we put into the healthcare reform bill was a singular effort by Senator Specter.
We've got to make some pretty tough decisions, too.
Working on a broad basis? Now, this is not personalized, it doesn't depend on a certain gene, or----
I've always been in favor of all stem cell research, whatever pathway it leads us down, within the ethical guidelines.
The regulatory science that Peggy Hamburg has been talking about is exactly what's needed.
I assume they are some of these differences accounted for by focusing on those thematic areas that you just mentioned, those five theme area...
I mean, from prevention we know what smoking leads to, and all the diseases it leads to, and the cost to society.
I commend the outstanding work that you are doing on behalf of the American people and on this critical piece of domestic policy, the Elemen...
