PLEASE CALL your elected officials TODAY to let them know that more than 400 representatives of the childhood cancer community, parents, children with cancer, health care providers will be on CAPITOL HILL to advocate for funding for childhood cancer research. Let them know why this is an important issue for you. Go to:http://capwiz.com/curesearch/dbq/officials/?lvl=L to look up your elected officials.


When you call your Senators and representative and let them know that you are not able to attend CURESEARCH'S REACH THE DAY for meetings with them, but wanted to make sure they understand that funding for childhood cancer research is an important issue for you as a constituent, concerned citizen and friend of a WV parent who lost their daughter to childhood cancer.

The MESSAGES TO SAY WHEN YOU CALL ARE:
1) ask them to support FY2010 appropriations funding for childhood cancer research; $20 million in the Defense subcommittee and $5 million in the Labor Health and Human Services subcommittee bills
2) ask them to include funding for childhood cancer clinical trials research in the NCI appropriation for FY2010

Thanks,
Kate

Kate Shafer, LICSW
Director of Advocacy
CureSearch National Childhood Cancer Foundation
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PLEASE take action on this TODAY!!!  Charles & I were supposed to attend this event, but things came up and we couldn't.  SO we can help those PAC2 & CureSearch families who are there by doing our part on the phone.  It only takes a few minutes & we all have a few minutes in our day.

Today PAC2 & CureSearch families/rep. are having a training and tomorrow they meet with their states reps. to address the above issues.  NEED FOR MORE FUNDING FOR THE KIDS!!!

Thanks bunches,
Karen Vannatter & Angel Emma