Political Quotes

“I rise today for myself and Senator Cantwell to submit a concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of Health and Human Services should conduct or support research to improve early detection of ovarian cancer. Specifically, our resolution encourages continuing and accelerating the development of an ovarian cancer screening test currently underway through a public-private partnership including the National Cancer Institute and the Food and Drug Administration. Ovarian cancer is the deadliest of the gynecologic cancers and the fourth leading cause of cancer death among women in the United States. Ovarian cancer occurs in 1 out of 57 women, and an estimated 13,900 American women died from ovarian cancer in 2001 alone. Currently, approximately three-quarters of women with ovarian cancer are diagnosed when they are already in advanced stages of the disease, and only one in five will survive five years. However, if the disease is caught early, the five-year survival rate jumps to 95 percent. Thus providing a way to routinely identify the disease in its 'Stage 1' phase could have a dramatic impact in what is now a very deadly cancer. No screening test exists that can accurately detect ovarian cancer in the early states when it is highly curable.”