[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 64 (Friday, May 20, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: May 20, 1994]
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                   BREAST CANCER AND SCIENTIFIC FRAUD

  (Mr. BROWN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I rise to confront a killer of 
American women and a federal system which allowed women to be duped.
  Some 46,300 women will die of breast cancer this year. It robs 
Americans of our mothers, our sisters, and our daughters.
  American women were recently appalled to learn of scientific fraud 
conducted in one of the largest federally funded breast cancer research 
projects.
  It is highly offensive that a trusted researcher would falsify data 
to get around the specific protocols designed to ensure appropriate and 
worthwhile information.
  What is worse in this situation, however, is that the National Cancer 
Institute knowingly conceal this information from thousands of women 
whose potential life and death decisions were based on this false 
information.
  It is time that we, as the guardians of the public trust, fully 
investigate and take action to ensure that women will never again be 
faced with treatment decisions based on false information. It is time 
to restore American women's confidence in the research they have 
entrusted to us.

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