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The National Institutes of Health (NIH), and its National Cancer Institute (NCI), are the largest funders of brain tumor research in the world. Additionally, the NIH/NCI Clinical Center provides important access to second opinions and clinical trials for patients with brain tumors. Together, these agencies serve as the backbone for scientific and medical innovation in the brain tumor field, funding discovery research that serves as the foundation for breakthroughs in therapeutic strategies as well as supporting clinical research that helps develop, evaluate, and provide access to cutting-edge treatments.
Brain Tumor Awareness Month is a month dedicated to supporting, empowering, and amplifying the voice of the brain tumor community. Once again, the National Brain Tumor Society is asking advocates to take action and to raise awareness by formally requesting that May be proclaimed Brain Tumor Awareness Month in your state.
We still need advocates in Montana, Alaska, Hawaii, Mississippi, and Vermont to sign up!
A new Congress provides another opportunity to build and reinforce relationships with Members of Congress who are our champions in the fight to conquer and cure brain tumors – once and for all.
Working together, our efforts last Congress contributed to the enactment of a number of policies that will benefit the brain tumor community. But there were several more that, despite significant progress made, were left on the table when the 118th Congress adjourned last December.
There is good reason to believe that there is support in Congress for quick action on these policies. But this will only happen with active encouragement by impacted stakeholders.
For the past 15 years, volunteer advocates have taken action to ensure reliable medical research funding through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by meeting directly with members of Congress and their staff on Capitol Hill during Head to the Hill. Reinforce this message by registering today; use your voice to influence legislation that impacts the brain tumor community, including medical research funding through the NIH and the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program, and the BRAIN Act.