Dan Burton: “I do not think there is a family in the United States that has not been touched by some form of cancer; and if you catch…”

“I do not think there is a family in the United States that has not been touched by some form of cancer; and if you catch it early, the life expectancy can be extended a great deal of time, and in many cases, it can be cured. We had a personal experience in my family. In fact, I lost my first wife to cancer, and I think in part it was because there was not early detection of that cancer. So one of the things that I think is most important is that women and men get screened for various forms of cancer. There is prostate cancer in men. There is cervical cancer for women. There is ovarian cancer. There is breast cancer. There needs to be early screening. That is one of the reasons why Darrell Issa and I cosponsored Jo-Anna's Law to make doctors and patients aware of the signs of cervical cancer very, very early so that women can be saved from terminally being ill. I cannot express enough the pain that a family goes through when they find out that one of their loved ones is terminally ill and it could have been prevented if you had found out about it early enough.”