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HONORABLE ABRAHAM
~ EDUCATION AND WELF

SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
HINGTON 25, D. C.

I HAVE RECEIVED YOUR WIRE OF ‘NOVEMBER 4 IN WHICH YOU CONTEND THAT THE
CUTS YOU HAVE ORDERED IN THE BUDGETS OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF
HEALTH WILL NOT CURTAIL VITAL RESEARCH PROGRAMS IN CANCER. YOU FURTHER

+} {CONTEND THAT THE $127 MILLION YOU ARE NOW ALLOWING FOR THE NATIONAL
CANCER INSTITUTE IS- AN INCREASE OF. $21 MILLION OVER LAST YEAR'S
APPROPRIATIONS. If SEEMS TO ME THAT YOUR CONTENTIONS ENTIRELY MISS
THE POINT. AFTER WEEKS UPON WEEKS OF HEARINGS ON THE PART OF BOTH’
‘HOUSE AND SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEES, THE, CONGRESS UNANIMOUSLY _
VOTED $142 MILLION FOR THIS YEAR TO THE. NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE. 1) ‘)
THIS APPROPRIATION WAS SIGNED INTO LAW BY THE PRESIDENT SOME WEEKS
AGO AND THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE HAD ALREADY MADE PLANS FOR THE
SUPPORT OF ADDITIONAL RESEARCH AND THE TRAINING OF MORE SCIENTISTS TO
STRENGTHEN THE FIGHT AGAINST CANCER. THE CUT OF $15 MILLION WHICH -
YOU HAVE ARBITRARILY INSTITUTED WITHOUT ANY HEARINGS IS A DEVASTATING
BLOW TO THE EXPANDING RESEARCH PROGRAM OF THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE.
DR. I. S. RAVDIN, CHAERMAN OF THE CLINICAL STUDIES PANEL OF THE CANCER
CHEMOTHERAPY NATIONAL SERVICE CENTER, SAID AT. A PRESS CONFERENCE LAST:
FRIDAY THAT IF THIS CUT WERE NOT RESCINDED 23 NEW CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS

_ DEVELOPED BY THE CENTER AS PROMISING ANTI-CANCER AGENTS COULD NOT. BE
TESTED. -IN THE LIGHT OF DR. RAVDIN'S COMMENT, HOW CAN YOU- CONTEND
THAT THE CANCER RESEARCH PROGRAM IS NOT BEING CURTAILED? EACH YEAR
CANCER TAKES AN INCREASING TOLL AMONG THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 250,000
AMERICANS NOW DIE ANNUALLY FROM THIS. DISEASE, TWICE AS MANY AS DIED
ANNUALLY ONLY A GENERATION AGO. THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY HAS an
POINTED OUT THAT 75,000 AMERICANS WHO NOW DIE OF CANCER EACH YEAR: COULD
BE SAVED IF THE LATEST AND BEST MEANS FOR DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF
CANCER WERE MADE MORE WIDELY AVAILABLE. DR. SIDNEY FARBER POINTED OUT
LAST FRIDAY THAT MOST AMERICANS WHO NOW DIE OF CANCER DO NOT RECEIVE
THE NEWEST DRUG TREATMENTS. IN THE LIGHT OF THESE FACTS, HOW CAN YOU
JUSTIFY A SEVERE CUT IN THE MONIES AVAILABLE -TO OUR DEDICATED
SCIENTISTS WHO ARE TRYING TO STEM THIS EPIDEMIC OF .CANCER? I STILL
INSIST THAT ANY CUTBACK IN THE EXPANSION OF MEDICAL RESEARCH IS A
SHATTERING BLOW TO OUR FIFTEEN-YEAR EFFORT TO. MOUNT A LONG-TERM
RESEARCH OFFENSIVE DESIGNED TO EVENTUALLY CONQUER THE MAJOR KILLERS
AND CRIPPLERS OF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS.

~ JOHN E, FOGARTY
MEMBER OF CONGRESS