{"id":1400,"date":"2014-10-20T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T07:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2015-01-28T14:04:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T19:04:29","slug":"federal-budget-games-hurt-cancer-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/20\/federal-budget-games-hurt-cancer-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Budget Games Hurt Cancer Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_983\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-983\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-983\" src=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MP9004491051-200x160.jpg\" alt=\"Low Budgets Are Hurting Research\" width=\"200\" height=\"160\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Low Budgets Are Hurting Research<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When the American Society of Clinical Oncology released its <em>Annual Report on Progress Against Cancer<\/em> last December, the cancer news was good and bad. Advances in cancer research were achieving \u201cextraordinary progress in the fight against cancer,\u201d but budget cuts and years of flat funding were delaying efforts to turn research into effective cancer treatments, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2013\/12\/131211132501.htm\">Science Daily<\/a><\/em> explained.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Effective Cancer Treatments<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ASCO\u00a0highlighted three cancer treatments at the forefront of cancer news:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Genomics: the use of genetic research to personalize cancer treatment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Treatment-resistant cancers: the development of new cancer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.issels.com\/default.aspx\">treatment therapies that are proving to be effective against historically treatment-resistant cancers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.issels.com\/TreatmentSummary.aspx\">Targeted immunotherapy<\/a>: the harnessing of the body\u2019s own immune system to treat cancer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Research-Treatment\u00a0Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The report links the development of cancer treatment techniques and the drop in cancer death rates \u201cto our nation\u2019s investment in cancer research over the past four decades.\u201d Unfortunately, Congressional sequester and mandated federal budget cuts have slowed the pace of cancer research. More than half a million Americans die from cancer every year, but ASCO warns that cancer fatalities could increase dramatically without adequate research funding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Funding Commitment Needed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ASCO\u2019s plea that \u201cCongress do its part to re-ignite our nation\u2019s commitment to cancer research\u201d appears to have fallen on deaf ears. The National Cancer Institute\u2019s 2014 budget was $4.9 billion, only a slight increase over its 2013 budget. However, as explained by <a href=\"http:\/\/deainfo.nci.nih.gov\/grantspolicies\/FinalFundLtr.pdf\">NCI Funding Policy<\/a>, \u201cthis increase only restores about 53% of the sequestration reduction that NCI experienced during fiscal year 2013.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is time for the Congress to stop playing budget games that hurt cancer research. As ASCO President Clifford Hudis points out, \u201cLives depend on it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the American Society of Clinical Oncology released its Annual Report on Progress Against Cancer last December, the cancer news was good and bad. Advances in cancer research were achieving \u201cextraordinary progress in the fight against cancer,\u201d but budget cuts and years of flat funding were delaying efforts to turn research into effective cancer treatments, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/20\/federal-budget-games-hurt-cancer-research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Federal Budget Games Hurt Cancer Research<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,203,2],"tags":[252,253,276,373],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-cancer-treatment","category-cancer-research","category-news","tag-cancer-research-advancement","tag-cancer-research-funding","tag-low-fat-diets-and-cancer","tag-self-esteem"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1401,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions\/1401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}