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President Obama signs #CuresAct bill, allocating $1.8 billion in cancer research - our cancer researcher CEO and Founder's thoughts

12/13/2016

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Today, President Barak Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act in the White House. This $6.3 billion bill will fund drug treatment, a precision medicine initiative and Vice President Biden's #CancerMoonshot, efforts to end cancer. 

Here are the thoughts of our brain cancer and cancer immunotherapy researcher, CEO and Founder, Dr. Sahin: "We at Cancer Education and Research Institute (CERI) are very pleased to hear that such a bill has been finally approved. As a cancer researcher, for years, we have been waiting for more funds to be allocated for cancer research, diagnostic, treatment, and prevention. Particularly as a brain cancer researcher, I can say that the allocation of cancer research funds by the NIH has been less equal among cancer types. Funding has been tight and more and more cancer research positions had been depending on it. Although I am now very excited to see that such a large sum of funding has been allocated for cancer research, yet, it was somewhat sad to see the realization that more funding for cancer research was dramatically needed only after the death of Vice President Joe Biden's son from brain cancer. I, personally, as a cancer researcher, would have wanted to see that our voices would have been heard much, much earlier and perhaps many more cancer patients could have been alive by now. And now, as an executive director and founder of a Boston-based, global cancer education nonprofit, I would to like push forward, once again, the importance of 'cancer patient education' as well as 'public education' about cancer. From our award-winning nonprofit's work worldwide, we have seen that cancer is truly a 'global' issue, and with no education on patients' end, an effective cancer treatment and in a timely fashion, will not be fully achieved. Patient education is the key for a complete 'teamwork' of the medical team to treat patients in a targeted and effective way. Our worldwide campaign, #empowermentagainstcancer, shows that people support cancer patients' education, want patients to be involved in their treatments, and thus, feeling empowered against their disease. We need to have patients to be involved in their treatments, decisions, and options, and for this, cancer education is a must. We at Cancer Education and Research Institute (CERI) look forward to the support in funding for cancer education, not only for cancer patients, but also for the general public for cancer prevention, including youth programs for children, like out CERI Youth Program, for development of healthier generations worldwide." 
The bill also authorized seven years of funding for other health-related initiatives: $1.5 billion for a brain research initiative, $1.4 billion for precision medicine, and $1 billion for substance abuse treatment targeting heroin and opioid addiction.
Obama signs #CancerAct bill - #CancerMoonshot - Cancer Education and Research Institute (CERI)
Read more about the bill in the news here: 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/12/13/obama-signs-63-billion-law-cancer-research-drug-treadment/95382708/

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/president-obama-signs-cures-act-law-article-1.2909626

#CuresAct #CancerMoonshot #Cancer #cancereducation #patienteducation #publiceducation #canceredinstitute 

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