Lance Armstrong calls on Congress to renew war on cancer
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WASHINGTON -- Seven-time Tour de France winner and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong is calling on Congress to renew the nation's war on cancer.
"It's time for our country to refocus and relaunch a comprehensive war on this disease," Armstrong said Thursday before a Senate panel.
America's aging population and younger people who are less physically active than they should be make it more urgent than ever to find better ways to combat cancer, he said.
Armstrong, who lives in Austin, was diagnosed in 1996 with testicular cancer that spread to his lungs and brain. But he recovered to win the world's premier cycling event from 1999 to 2005. The Lance Armstrong Foundation supports cancer research and prevention as well as better care for cancer survivors.
Armstrong backs legislation sponsored by Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, to create a more comprehensive approach to fighting cancer. The measure seeks to improve the coordination of cancer research, prevention and treatment while giving more money to the National Cancer Institute and other public research agencies.
