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Every Fifteen Minutes

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

an American is diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer.

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U.S. CONGRESS PASSES HR 745 DECLARING NOVEMBER NATIONAL PANCREATIC CANCER AWARENESS MONTH

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. U.S.A. (September 28, 2006)— After thousands of phone calls, emails, letters and personal visits to Congressional representatives from the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network’s (PanCAN) grassroots advocates, the U.S. Congress responded Monday by unanimously passing House Resolution 745, a bill introduced by Rep. Todd Platts (R-PA) to recognize November 2006 as National Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month. Platts has helped focus the House on the plight of the pancreatic cancer community for the last five years by introducing similar resolutions designating November as National Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month.

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Something I Never Expected

Saturday, October 7th, 2006

Congress will soon be deciding how much funding the federal government will provide for cancer research. While the leaders of the House and Senate have agreed to provide a $7 billion increase for health and other programs, including NIH and NCI, their proposals fall far short of that goal. In fact, the funding levels that they are currently considering would result in a cut for cancer research. There is still far too much that needs to be done within the field of pancreatic cancer research to accept a cut in funding. We need early detection tools, treatments, and a cure. Make sure your Senators and Representative know that you think pancreatic cancer research is a funding priority and should be one of their priorities too.

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A year ago we were trying to get into the sugar beet fields. Like now, it was too wet. This year there are beets in the valley, but none in our fields. I never liked sugar beets, they took too much time, energy and expense.

I wish that we could be out in this beet field again.

Allan & Lynn

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