Political Quotes

“Mr. President, throughout history, medical research has been responsible for hundreds of groundbreaking discoveries that have improved and saved lives, enabled health care to become more effective and efficient, and lowered overall health care costs. May was National Cancer Research Month, and I wish to take a few minutes and recognize the importance of medical research and the invaluable contributions made by scientists, doctors, and researchers across the United States who are working not only to overcome cancer but many other devastating diseases. With decades of research, cancer mortality rates have steadily declined since 1990, and today more than 12 million Americans are cancer survivors. In fact, the number of survivors have quadrupled since the mid-1970s, and the overall 5-year survival rate for all cancers has improved to more than 65 percent. Decades of research and technological advances have brought us into a new era of medical care for cancer. We can now sequence all the genes of a tumor and use that information to determine the biological causes of cancer. This greater understanding of the causes of cancer has led to advances in prevention, early detection, and treatment that have saved countless lives. Despite significant advances in research over the last few decades, much work remains to be done. More than 1.5 million Americans are expected to be diagnosed this year with cancer.…”