House Republican Conference Radio Row: European Style Health Care Cuts Survival Rates Of Cancer Patients, Says Wyoming Rep.

Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) says the proposed health care bill by Nancy Pelosi is a "European model" and will create gaps between diagnosis and treatment in patients, leading to a reduction of survival rates among men and women diagnosed with cancer. (0:17)
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Gov't Run Health Care Equals Increased Cancer Deaths Says GOP'er Rogers

Rep. Mike Rogers (R- Mich.) says that countries with government run health care, such as Canada and the UK, have lower cancer survival rates because they ration care. Rogers says that these countries are willing to accept that more of their citizens will die because they have public health care systems. (0:29)
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Obama To Pursue Cancer Cure

By Courtney Ann Jackson-Talk Radio News Service

Billy Tauzin, President and CEO of PhRMA, discusses President Obama's announcement about finding a cure for cancer versus President Kennedy's announcement about sending a man to the moon. He noted that the public may be receiving this information differently because in Kennedy's charge, it was just one thing to conquer rather than hundreds. (0:28)
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Lance Armstrong: We've taken our eye off the ball

Lance Armstrong, seven-winner of the Tour de France and cancer survivor, says it is time for America as society to stand up and renew its commitment to the war against cancer. At a National Call to Action on Cancer Prevention and Survivorship, Armstrong says that America has taken its eye off the ball. Armstrong says the American society has let the cancer situation persist in homes and hospitals and America has not focused its priorities on dealing with cancer. (0:30)
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McCain has no evidence of skin cancer

Dr. John D. Eckstein, an internal physician, says that there is no evidence of recurrence of presidential candidate Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) invasive melanoma as the eighth anniversary of operation approaches. (0:39)
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Millions need new, progressive forms of cancer treatment

Dr. Emil Freireich, an oncologist and cancer researcher, says that millions are in needs of progressive forms of cancer treatment between the hundreds of thousands of cancer patients doomed to die and the growing number of patients whose lives have only been prolonged with current treatment methods. (0:25)
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