Curing cancer rates high in national survey
Seventy-three percent have had a close friend or family
member die of the disease, and 45 percent say they know someone
who had cancer and was cured.
A recent bipartisan national poll shows that voters care more
about finding a cure for cancer than they do about nuclear missile
defense, violent crime, environmental protection, or campaign
finance reform.
Results of the poll, conducted by Peter D. Hart Associates
and SpeakOut.com, with the American Association for Cancer Research,
include:
Seventy-three
percent have had a close friend or family member die of cancer,
and 45 percent say they know someone who had it and was cured.
Finding a cure
for cancer ranked second only to providing health care to all
children.
More than two-thirds
want the government to at least double current funding for cancer
research.
Conducted in late August and surveying 1,002 registered voters,
the poll was commissioned by a group of nationally recognized
cancer survivors and scientists that includes Lance Armstrong
and his oncologist, Dr. Craig Nichols; Hamilton Jordan; and Nobel
Laureate Dr. Phillip A. Sharp. More info: <http://www.aacr.org>,
"What's New."