Cancer Funding Needs Your Help Today!!!

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Hi gang,

As many of you know, I am an advocacy volunteer for the Leukemia &

Lymphoma Society. There is a very important vote happening this week

in the US Senate and it would be great if we could get as many people

(Americans) as possible to email a letter to their senators asking for

their support of this amendment. All you have to do is go to

http://action.lls.org

and click on the link that says " Cancer Funding Needs Your Help

Today " . The letter is there--you just need to add your name and

location information and it will be sent to your senators. When a

senator's office gets a lot of these it really does make a difference

so please feel free to pass this on to all your family and friends as

well.

There have been cuts in NIH and NCI spending on cancer and medical

research over the last few years and this amendment is an attempt to

get the funding back up to levels we had in the past. Many research

labs have had to cut back and even close up projects due to the cuts

in spending levels. While an increase of 2.1 billion for the current

year might sound like a lot--we actually spend that in about one week

in Iraq. When you consider that 1 of every 2 men and 1 of every 3

women will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetimes--this funding

really impacts almost everyone. Those of us with CML certainly

understand how important this funding is as it was exactly this kind

of funding in the past which led to the huge progress that has been

made against our leukemia.

Please--let's barrage them with emails on this! Thanks for your help.

Dorothy Emery

dx 5/2000