FREE CPRIT/ CPRIT IS ON ITS WAY BACK !

We learned today that The Health and Human Services passed a preliminary bill suggesting measures that will offer a tighter Oversight at CPRIT.  The bill goes to the full chamber for approval.  CPRIT represents the largest opportunity for fight against cancer in Texas primarily, but also the United States given the sparsity of available funds for cancer research and PREVENTION.
In general chances to obtain a grant is around 10% in the United States according to professors at the University of Texas in El Paso (UTEP) .  According to the Audit conducted at CPRIT, the MD Anderson was reported to have received  42% of the approximated one billion so far distributed by CPRIT.  This money comes from all Texans.  Most of them will never see the doors of the MD Anderson when they will need care because they can not afford it!  In El Paso, when you are found with a rare cancer such as a liver Angiosarcoma found recently in a 38 year old woman with no health insurance.  Her chance to participate in a MD Anderson study is more likely  less than 10 percent also if that.  Likely enough, drug company are looking to provide some help for the Avastin we recommended as part of her treatment.
We are also currently fighting to locate funds for another man, also with lack of insurance with metastatic penile cancer with positive pathology in inguinal nodes.  For these patients the prospect of going to Houston, live in a hotel to take part to a trial and afford it, is non-existent despite their participation to CPRIT funding.
For these reason alone CPRIT should not continue the current pattern of funding.  El Paso has received 0.2% of funding so far despite being the 4th city in Texas.  A cry for fairness is being conveyed here at CRBCM.

We look at CPRIT for fair leadership, we look at CPRIT to save life today and more in the future.
Somebody at CPRIT answer the call and fund projects that will help here, today!  Help us put together programs and infrastructure to fight cancer today for a better tomorrow and for the Cure in EL Paso.  Not every one can afford the trip to Houston!