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HELP US FIGHT OVARIAN CANCER
Sign letter supporting the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program for ovarian cancer in final FY12 Defense Appropriations bill
Dear Colleague:
We write to ask you to sign the attached letter to the House and Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee Chairmen and Ranking Members in support of $16 million for the Ovarian Cancer Research Program at the Department of Defense (DOD OCRP) in the FY12 Defense Appropriations Conference Report. This level of funding is the same level passed by the House.
The OCRP supports the forward momentum of critical research to understand, prevent and treat this disease that affects the warfighter, military beneficiaries and the general public. The OCRP is structured to facilitate nontraditional collaboration between civilian and military research programs. The involvement of DOD OCRP in research performed at both civilian and military health facilities nationwide creates a unique shared process for success that raises the standard and scope of the investigational process. Designed to promote increased flexibility, OCRP research produces innovative, high impact and valuable results through strategic partnerships between advocates, lab scientists and clinicians.
During the last five years, over 2,600 members of our military or military families have been hospitalized for ovarian cancer or suspected ovarian cancer. These individuals have spent more than 14,000 bed days of care in military treatment facilities. One in 69 women will develop ovarian cancer, and less than half will survive for five years. A woman dies of ovarian cancer every hour. It is expected that more than 22,000 women will be diagnosed with the disease this year and more than 14,000 women will die from ovarian cancer in 2011.
These statistics are sobering. We therefore urge you to support keeping funding levels for ovarian cancer research in line with the impact that this disease has on our society. If you have any questions, or want to sign on letter in support of the Ovarian Cancer Research Program at the Department of Defense, please contact Dan Zeitlin (DeLauro) by phone at 5-3661 or by email at daniel.zeitlin@mail.house.gov; or Brian Fauls (Burton) by phone at 5-2276 or by email at brian.fauls@mail.house.gov.
Sincerely,
ROSA L. DeLAURO
Member of Congress
DAN BURTON
Member of Congress
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