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Randy Pausch address to Congress

Randy Pausch was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University . He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2006 and his doctor told him he had less than six months to live . He spent his last days advocating for pancreatic research . He had a chance to address the congress about the pancreatic cancer

He urged the congress to fund the research as the disease kills very fast . This has led to few living to

talk about it as they die in under a year . Yet pancreatic cancer is a major cause of deaths among those aged forty to fifty nine in the United States . It is deadly because the patients do not exhibit symptoms it gets to its advanced stage . This leads to little or no action being taken on a disease that is so fatal He hoped to get the congress to invest 170 million dollars towards pancreatic cancer research . This is because the pancreatic research had the least finding from the federal government . It is allocated less than two percent of the National Cancer Institute 's budget (Hernrchs1 .He appealed to congress to fund the research to encourage young researchers as Randy put it the hotshot young researchers need the strong sense that the funding is there (Randy 's Last Lecture . He urged the congress to fund the pancreatic research just like it had done in the HIV /AIDS and bioterrorism researches

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