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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “We were absolutely committed to cancer research, and…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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And my heart goes out to that family. The one agency that within my agency, and the only agency within NIH that actually got a budget boost from our proposal was nci. And We were absolutely committed to cancer research, and particularly pediatric cancer research. I invite you, Congressman, to call me to tell me if there are programs. Some of our programs were duplicative, so we've moved them around and it looks like there was a cut, but I don't know of any major cancer studies. (1:50:48–1:50:57)

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Asserts a commitment to cancer research, especially pediatric cancer research.

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