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Barack Obama: I call upon all courageous cancer patients and survivors, health care providers, researchers, advocates, and others…

On the recordMarch 31, 2009
I call upon all courageous cancer patients and survivors, health care providers, researchers, advocates, and others involved in this struggle to work together in support of our Nation's goal to control, and ultimately defeat, this devastating disease.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Proclamation 8354—National Cancer Control Month

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