Gynecologic Cancer Education and Awareness Act of 2005

GYNECOLOGIC CANCER EDUCATION AND AWARENESS ACT OF 2005 -- (House of Representatives - November 14, 2006)

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Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, I wanted to simply add my support to this bill. I had the great opportunity when I was in the State Senate in North Carolina to learn much about HPV in particular. And while I consider myself a fairly well educated woman in many cases, I knew nothing about the HPV until the organization Women in Government educated those of us in the State legislature about this completely preventable cancer.

We are looking for a way to prevent cancer and to cure cancer in this country and we now have a mechanism for doing that. And whatever we can do to spread the word to women that this particular cancer can be prevented, we need to do.

And so I am a supporter of this legislation and hope that we can do much in this country, State by State, as well as nationally, to educate women and help them understand the perils of many of these diseases and how they can prevent them.

We were able in North Carolina to pass a model piece of legislation. Unfortunately, it has not been passed in all the States, but I hope that more States will pick it up and help educate women about these diseases and how they can be prevented.

So I urge my colleagues to support this legislation.

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