CR3 News Magazine 2019 VOL 5: NOVEMBER WHY Only $14 Million? | Page 10

Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA) and The Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation (ALCF) have joined forces as GO 2 Foundation for Lung Cancer.
The Lung Cancer Research Program is in Jeopardy. Your voice can help save the ONLY DEDICATED lung cancer
research funding from the Federal government
government--the largest funder of research in the world.
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The United States Senate has EXCLUDED the Lung Cancer Research Program from its version of the FY2020
Defense Appropriations Bill.
The United States House of Repre
Representatives retained the 10-year-old
old program at a continued funding level of
$14 Million in its version of the Bill.
The Senate version would ERASE those committed dollars and instead move lung cancer research into a
collective Peer-Reviewed
Reviewed Research Progra
Program
m that competes funding with other cancers and carries
NO GUARANTEE that lung cancer research will receive any funding at all.
The lung cancer community will be set back 10 years with the Senate Appropriation version. We must all speak with
ONE VOICE to rally
lly behind the House Appropriations Bill for FY2020, which if approved would bring federal funding
for lung cancer research up to a total of $155.5 Million.
About Us
GO 2 Foundation for Lung Cancer, formerly Lung Cancer Alliance and The Bonnie J. Addario
Foundation
ndation for Lung Cancer, transforms survivorship as the world’s leading organization
dedicated to saving, extending, and improving the lives of those vulnerable, at risk, and