[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 177 (Thursday, December 8, 2016)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1660-E1661]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               HONORING THE DELBERT DAY CANCER INSTITUTE

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                            HON. JASON SMITH

                              of missouri

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, December 8, 2016

  Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to celebrate the 
opening of the Delbert Day Cancer Institute at Phelps County Regional 
Medical Center.
  The nationally accredited Delbert Day Cancer Institute will provide 
comprehensive cancer treatment care to residents of south central 
Missouri and its surrounding areas. The center will directly improve 
access to life saving and live extending services. I am proud to know

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Missouri's Eighth Congressional District will be home to one of the 
finest cancer treatment centers in the country.
  Doctor Delbert Day serves as a leader in biomedical research in his 
role as the Curator's Professor Emeritus of Ceramic Engineering at the 
Missouri University of Science and Technology. Over the course of his 
impressive career, Dr. Day founded MO-Sci Corp in 1985, and introduced 
the glass microsphere components used for inoperable liver cancer 
treatments. As a leader in the advancement of radiation therapy, Dr. 
Day earned dozens of awards and high honors for his achievements as an 
incredibly successful forward thinking engineer. The Delbert Day Cancer 
Institute will use state of the art medical technologies, including 
some of the breakthroughs he developed, to treat the citizens of south 
central Missouri.
  This week the United States Congress sent a bill to the President's 
desk that will support the principles of incentivizing research to 
create new treatments and one day cures for rare diseases, including 
cancers. I was proud to support the 21st Century Cures Act because we 
need to unleash the ingenuity of future inventors so they can continue 
to develop pioneering technologies so that centers like these will be 
able to better treat and one day cure cancer.
  For improving access to cancer treatments in rural Missouri it is my 
pleasure to recognize the Delbert Day Cancer Institute before the 
United States House of Representatives.

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