Michelle Brown from Henryetta will meet with Congressman Markwayne Mullin and Senators Jim Inhofe and James Lankford to discuss the need to support an increase in federal funding for cancer research. She will also ask them to co-sponsor legislation that supports patients’ quality of life and to support legislation that would close a loophole in Medicare that often results in surprise costs for seniors when a polyp is found during a routine colonoscopy.
michelle brownBrown is Oklahoma’s State Lead Ambassador (SLA) for ACS CAN and a longtime cancer patient advocate. Over the past 20 years, she has had several family members and close friends lose their battles with cancer.
“One in two men and one in three women will hear the words ‘you have cancer’ in their lifetime. We need a full and unwavering commitment from Congress to take action to help prevent and treat cancer,” said Brown. “We want our lawmakers to know that volunteers from Oklahoma, and from every state across the country, are counting on them to take a stand.”
She will be joining some 750 cancer patients, survivors, volunteers and staff from all 50 states and nearly every congressional district in Washington, D.C. They are acting as part of the annual American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) Leadership Summit and Lobby Day. Advocates will urge Congress to take specific steps to make cancer a national priority and help end a disease that kills 1,600 people a day in this country.