NY-29: Cancer Summit with Eric Massa
Greetings RT readers, it’s Congressman Eric Massa stopping by to say hello and to let you know about an upcoming event that is very important to me. On June 22nd Camp Good Days and Special Times will be holding a Cancer Summit in conjunction with my office.
As many of you may know, I am a cancer survivor and I have committed myself to this cause. Camp Good Days and Special Times founder and chairman Gary Mervis lost his daughter Teddi to the disease, and has spent the past 30 years helping others in their struggle with cancer.
Cancer is the number one killer of people under age 85 and is the second leading cause of death for women. One in two men and one in three women will receive a cancer diagnosis in their lifetime. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has determined that the total cost of cancer, including medical treatments and the loss of productivity, exceeded $228 billion in 2008.
Statistics like these led me to join with Camp Good Days and Special Times founder and chairman Gary Mervis to host our Cancer Summit on June 22nd. The summit will be held at 58 West Lake Road, Branchport, NY, 14418 from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. The public, press and health and research organizations are invited to attend. The Cancer Summit will focus on research and prevention and will bring together various organizations in an attempt to coordinate their efforts and improve the chances of finding a cure.
The underlying impetus for this action was President Obama’s February 24th, 2009 announcement during a Joint Session of Congress that he wants to find a cure for cancer in our lifetime. When President Obama said that we will ‘launch a new effort’ to find a ‘cure for cancer in our time,’ I wanted to help. The last time a U.S. president took this action was in 1971 with President Nixon and the creation of The National Cancer Act. There has been silence in the White House ever since.
Now is the time to reinvigorate the fight but we cannot do this alone - we must have community action in this battle that affects everyone in some way. I hope to see you there.
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Excuse me for being a wet blanket Congressman Massa but have you ever thought that if you added up all the money collected by modern medicine from honest Americans to find a cure for cancer that it would amount to trillions of dollars. And I am not even counting the money the government gives them. The reason I say that is because they have not found a cure for even one disease in 60 years. I remember giving donations for this cause when I was a little boy and I am 64 now. The numbers you quote means that cancer is an epidemic in America, it wasn’t when I was a boy, what have they been doing all this time with all that money? I wonder if they are even trying to find a cure? Paul
Paul, while there is no “cure” for cancer, I know many people who are cancer survivors - including Eric Massa. When I was a child, if you heard someone was diagnosed with cancer, there wasn’t much thought given to beating it. Today, you hear it happen all the time. Wish we could find a cure, but in the meantime, I’ll take progress.
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Imagine that the world had invented a new ‘dream product’ to feed and immunize everyone born on earth. Imagine also that is was available everywhere required no storage or delivery – and helped mothers to plan their families and reduce the risk of cancer. Then imagine that the world refused to use it. Towards the end of this last century of unprecedented discovery and invention this scenario is not alas a fiction. The ‘dream product’ is human breastmilk and is available to us all at birth and yet we are not using it” UNICEF 1991