November 16, 2006

  Pryce Receives Cancer Leadership Award
Honored at Ceremony Celebrating 10 th Anniversary of Friends of Cancer Research

Washington, D.C.– Last evening, Congresswoman Deborah Pryce (R-Columbus) was presented the Cancer Leadership Award from the Friends of Cancer Research. This award is given to those who have shown extraordinary leadership that has made a real difference in advancing cancer research.

Pryce accepted her award at the Friends of Cancer Research 10 th Anniversary Benefit in the company of fellow award recipients that included Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach, Acting Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration; Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA); and Rep. John Dingell (D-MI).

Pryce released the following statement after receiving the award:

“I am honored to have received this award in the company of many who have done so much over the years to raise awareness in the fight against cancer and have helped pave our path to a future without cancer.

“Each one of us believes in this fight and my fellow award recipients have carved out their own unique roles in our shared mission to stamp out cancer. We are dedicated to finding a way to channel our pain and anger to changing the course of this disease.

“We must continue to improve prevention, diagnosis, and treatment strategies as well as maximize our research investment through stronger public-private partnerships. We must also intensify our voices to generate greater awareness that will hopefully bring us to the day when our children, our mothers and fathers, our sisters and brothers, all of us can live in a world free of cancer.

“What the partnerships that Friends of Cancer Research has built with the NCI and NIH, the private sector, the cancer advocacy community, cancer centers like the Ohio State University in my hometown of Columbus, is a wonderful collaboration that is the key to winning this fight once and for all.

“To change the course of this disease – before another generation of loved ones is lost – is to change the world.”

Friends of Cancer Research is an influential non-profit organization dedicated to bringing key stakeholders together to raise awareness of the importance of cancer and biomedical research. www.focr.org