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this question comes from florence and marlton new jersey and florence's question is how does
ACS CAN prioritize which issues to work on and which types of cancer to focus on
and florence that's a really good question there are a variety of things that we considering
we make that decision one is that we talked to the medical science people in the american
cancer society in terms of what kinds of cancer uh... researches is available for possible
at that time where the greatest need is
we also because we have people in washington d_c_ and people in state capitals all across
the country were also paying attention to what's going on there and where the potential
is to get something done that's going to have some some positive impact so we we basically
consider all of these things when we make that decision and the distinctions that we
may not only distinction speak between different kinds of cancers because a lot of times
research that goes on one kind of cancer can apply to another kind of cancer but it's also
we're talking about childhood cancer are we talking about pediatric cancer we pay attention
to those things to but forest thank you for your question