[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6908]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            DEBBIE'S DREAM FOUNDATION: CURING STOMACH CANCER

  (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak about Debbie's 
Dream Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing stomach cancer 
research, and it recently hosted its Fifth Annual Dream Makers Gala in 
my area in south Florida.
  Each year, the event mobilizes efforts to fight stomach cancer, a 
disease that will be diagnosed in more than 22,000 Americans and kill 
almost 11,000 Americans this year alone. Although stomach cancer is the 
second most prevalent cancer killer worldwide, it receives the least 
amount of Federal funding for death of any type of cancer.
  I was proud to lead a letter with my fellow Floridian colleague, Lois 
Frankel, and 55 of our House colleagues to include stomach cancer in a 
list of cancers eligible for Department of Defense research funding.
  Thanks to Debbie Zelman, her incredible team, and their determination 
and perseverance, we can help Debbie's Dream of curing stomach cancer a 
reality soon.

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