Pete Sessions: “I love to hear the story Senator Domenici tells about helping to make this human genome project a reality. He shared it…”

“I love to hear the story Senator Domenici tells about helping to make this human genome project a reality. He shared it with me some time ago. It is one of those success stories we can feel good about. It does provide opportunities for health improvement in America in an extraordinary way. We heard recently remarks by the head of the National Cancer Institute who described one form of leukemia that had been diagnosed, and that certain types of treatments cured 60 percent of the leukemias and 40 percent were not cured; they didn't know why. But after the human genome study, they found out there were actually two different kinds of leukemias, and the treatment served one and not another. A lot of good breakthroughs are on the horizon, I am convinced.”