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Shelley Moore Capito: “Some of the states that bear the highest cancer incidence…”

Featuring: Shelley Moore Capito, Republican | U.S. Senate West Virginia

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Chairman Capito Questions at Labor-H Appropriations Subcommittee Hearing on NIH Budget Requests

Published | Video Starts at 00:54

And I've seen several projects where it talks about the concentration of cancers in rural areas such as mine, such as many of our states here. And Some of the states that bear the highest cancer incidence and mortality rates remain largely without access to NCI designated care. where it's proven the care is better, more successful, and has better rates of cure. So, you know, we have the IDEA program, which has great success and to help get some of that biomedical research out to our rural areas. (00:54–01:02)

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Asserts that states with high cancer rates lack access to NCI designated care.

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