Volunteers will be in Washington, D.C., representing Michigan with hundreds of cancer patients and survivors from across the country to call on Congress to make the fight against cancer a top priority.
Volunteers are asking our lawmakers to do three things:
We know that Congress has tough decisions to make, but we hope that our lawmakers will agree that a full-scale effort against cancer, a disease that kills nearly 600,000 Americans every year – or one person every minute of every day – should be high on the nation’s priority list.
After months of delay and hard negotiations, Congress has finally passed a funding bill! The bill includes a small increase for cancer research and prevention programs.