I agree that this is something that really needs to be done, and we've talked about it personally many times in the past.

According to this panel, there is no evidence that any of the strategies that people have been told to use to prevent Alzheimer's actually makes any difference.

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----

Amazing. Yes.

I am impatient, just as you are--frustrated, as you are--about this terrible disease of pancreatic cancer.

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.

I assume they are some of these differences accounted for by focusing on those thematic areas that you just mentioned, those five theme areas?

Senator Harkin has been a real leader here on what he has done on wellness, the new concept, the Harkin Wellness Doctrine.

But, I remember when President Nixon declared a war on cancer. They've been fighting that thing ever since.