Sue Myrick: “The Breast Cancer Treatment Act will allow low-income, uninsured women…”

On the recordOctober 12, 2000

The Breast Cancer Treatment Act will allow low-income, uninsured women to get treatment for their breast and cervical cancer. Right now, uninsured women can receive free Federal mammograms and pap smears; but if they find out they have cancer, they are on their own. There is nothing worse than being diagnosed with breast cancer or cervical cancer and then being told, sorry, there is nothing we can do to help. That is ridiculous. It is very, very expensive to get chemotherapy and radiation, which are the treatment options we have available today.

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Sue Myrick

North Carolina

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Discussing the Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act of 2000.

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