Archive for June, 2008
Dissertation findings
After coding data for the week, I found that there were some more prevalent topics than others.
1. Reverend Wright dominated March and some of April’s conversation
2. Bosnia and the confusion of sniper fire or no sniper fire
3. 3.am.?
4. Obama’s Pennsylvania elitist mishap
5. Hillary won’t give up
6. Delegates
7. McCain wins the Republican Nomination
8. McCain introduces himself to America as a former POW
9. Super Tuesday: Texas has a say in the campaign
10. The Gas Tax
OCNA and other cancer groups testify before congress
Cancer Groups Testify regarding Department of Defense Research Programs
Using those figures, ovarian cancer research is drastically underfunded (PDF). Last year the Congressional Directed Medical Research Programs funded $138 million for breast cancer research, $80 million for prostate cancer research and $10 million for ovarian cancer research. This funding represents $3,000 for each breast cancer or prostate cancer death—but only $650 for each ovarian cancer death.
Mark Carlebach, the widower of Lacey Gallagher, represented the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance in requesting $25 million for Fiscal Year 2009. Carlebach told Congress about his wife and her proposal that advocates should change their argument for research money. Before her death, Ms. Gallagher suggested that advocates look not at the total amount of money allocated by cancer type, or by cancer incidence, but by cancer mortality.
I fully agree with looking at the cancer mortality. There’s a problem that after 20 years, ovarian cancer mortality rates have NOT decreased.
