[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 17584-17585]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                    PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK

  (Mr. CICILLINE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. CICILLINE. Mr. Speaker, earlier this year I welcomed Rhode Island 
volunteers from the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network to the United 
States Capitol and discussed their concerns about our commitment to 
fighting this terrible disease.
  According to the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes 
of Health, 45,000 new cases of pancreatic cancer will be diagnosed this 
year. About 38,000 men, women, and children across our Nation will die 
from this disease over this same period of time.
  While our scientific and medical communities have made enormous 
strides in the fight against other forms of disease, the fact is that 
more than 90 percent of pancreatic cancer patients will die within 5 
years of diagnosis.
  We have to do more to make it easier for doctors to catch this 
disease early and develop treatments that will improve the prognosis 
for patients with pancreatic cancer. I applaud the men and women of the 
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network today for their ongoing work in the 
fight against this disease, and I look forward to working with them to 
support continued research and the development of new forms of 
treatment that will benefit all

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those whose lives are touched by cancer.

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