Cancer progress threatened by budget cuts in Congress, group says
Source: NBC News
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It’s never looked better for progress against cancer, a new report from the American Society for Clinical Oncology finds. “However, this vital research is facing its greatest threat in a generation,” the group says in its annual report on cancer. The threat? Budget cuts in Congress.
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"In particular, NIH (the National Institutes of Health) cut existing grants by 10 percent and eliminated from consideration 700 viable research projects that otherwise would have been funded,” the report reads. The National Cancer Institute, part of the NIH, cut funding by at least 6 percent for existing grants, cancer centers, and other research programs.
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"Although Congress enacted a five-year doubling of the NIH budget in 1998, funding for NIH has been effectively undoubled since that time. Including the cuts from sequestration, the NIH budget has declined by more than 22 percent ($6.1 billion) over the last decade, after adjusting for inflation."
Read more: http://m.nbcnews.com/health/cancer-care-progress-threatened-congress-budget-cuts-group-says-2D11718659
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high un- and under-employment, a falling standard of living and burgeoning income equality, et al, are not issues government can be concerned about with an MIC and military contractors to gorge. 
