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...fact that money is tighter. Funding for the NCI has been flat during the past three years of the Bush Administration, at about $4.8 billion. "One of the things that happens when money gets tight is that everything gets more conservative," says Dr. Curtis Harris, an NIH cancer researcher...
...Politics of Cancer...
...Washington is in favor of more cancer. But attempts to expand the NIH's budget or get separate funding from Congress have been stymied by internecine fighting among cancer groups. Armstrong tells of vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden's frustration at being besieged by cancer-site advocates--lung, breast, blood--and those for other terrible diseases, each unwilling to let dollars pass to another without an argument. "Within that group, you have a lot of fighting, hogging, people trying to elbow each other out," says Armstrong. The legislators' message to these groups is simple: Get your acts together...
Last year Armstrong persuaded the advocate community in Texas to play nice in support of a referendum to spend $3 billion fighting cancer over the next 10 years. The passage of the proposal was a huge victory in a spend-wary state, and perhaps it was a model for others. The program makes cancer prevention and screening key components, which saves the state money in the long...
This year Armstrong has tried to make cancer an election issue. He got Senator John McCain to attend the Livestrong Cancer Summit earlier this year. McCain, a skin-cancer survivor, committed to increasing spending but not to a specific amount. Senator Barack Obama has committed to doubling the budget for fighting cancer as part of a broader reform of health care. Certainly the frail, failing Senator Ted Kennedy's dramatic speech at the Democratic Convention, coming in the midst of his battle with brain cancer, underscored the point...