[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 27 (Friday, February 10, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S2529]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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                            CANCER RESEARCH

 Mr. GORTON. Mr. President, I have always been a strong 
proponent of Federal funding for cancer research. As a member of the 
Labor, Health, and Human Services and Education Appropriations 
Subcommittee since 1991, I have continually made cancer research one of 
my highest priorities.
  One form of this disease, breast cancer, will affect one in eight 
women and will kill 46,000 Americans this year alone. Whether you have 
had a sister, a mother, a spouse, or a friend who has been directly 
affected by breast cancer, the fear of this disease is instilled in all 
women.
  Conventional treatment for this type of cancer includes surgery, 
chemotherapy, radiation, and bone-marrow transplants.
  With this in mind, I am delighted to share with my colleagues the 
great strides researchers are making at the University of Washington. 
The scientists in Seattle have been working on a whole new approach to 
stopping breast cancer--the use of a vaccine.
  The vaccine, which has been under development for more than 3 years, 
is designed to stop the disease from recurring in many patients who 
have already been diagnosed and treated.
  The research is being financed by a $765,000 grant from the National 
Institutes of Health and $145,000 from the Boeing Co. The vaccine is 
now being refined in laboratory animals and the researchers hope to 
conduct human tests this year.
  I am proud of the wonderful work that is being done in Seattle, and 
throughout the whole country, where research is being conducted daily. 
With the great technological and research advances our society is 
experiencing, I am excited to see what innovative therapies tomorrow 
will bring.


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