dr. sharpless. so i think in america today, in the united states today there are 15.5 million cancer survivors. in 1971 there were 3 million cancer survivors. incredibly exciting time. imknew know therapy -- imknew know therapy, the brain initiative that i assume will have a significant cancer-looking element to it, crisper, could you just take -- while you and i have some time here, could you take a couple of minutes maybe and talk about your vision of what you hope and believe can happen over the next handful of years in the cancer institute. based on what we see happening already. >> sure. i think you're really right about that. it's a very exciting time in cancer research. i recently had a colleague e-mail me that it's like i picked the perfect time to lead the national cancer constitute because there are all these -- cancer institute. because there are all these exciting things. it's sort of like christmas in our field where all the new advances come out, and a number of exciting advances in a

dr. sharpless, our newbie to my right. then we have the director of the national institute for neurological diseases and stroke, next to him dr. richard hodas and at the far end somebody you know pretty well who had his 439th hearing or something like that, dr. anthony fauci, director of the national institute of allergy and infectious disease. i want to say to all of you chairman blunt, ranking member murray and the friends of nih that are here today, thank you. you have gone above and beyond in your support of nih research and the parents for whom it brings healing and hope and on behalf of them immigrateful for your consistent support and the words you've just specken, it gives me a great sense of confidence we're on a good and stronl path towards the future. i spend a lot of time with early stage researchers, wherever i go i set aside time to hear directly from them about their dreams, their ideas and, yes, their concerns. i know you too have met many of them, both in your home districts and sometimes in your much-appre

dr. sharpless for giving me an opportunity to look at the program and ology meeting all their tremendous women doctors and ph.d.s who that effort. thank you. of another port tremendous woman, senator we were able to pass the we were able to pass the starr act and can you give us an idea of how you will use this? it will pass the house very soon and become law. >> sure. i can directly comment on legislation. first-off, thank you for the visit. a lot to the pediatric doctors. wonderful s really and thank you for your support of senator capito's support cancer research. the starr act, the intent of it, it's very laudable to address issues in pediatric oncology and hildhood cancers that are important. one issue is survivorship the good news about pediatric we're curing more and more kids but the two problems s, we're not curing everyone, and a lot of the kids we cure are left with lifelong toxicities. results from therapy can be quite debilitating, translating disfiguring ity, surgery, cognitive dysfunction decades.s for so survivorship has become an issue. pafl a million pediatric cancer su

dr. sharpless for giving me an opportunity to look at the program and ology meeting all their tremendous women doctors and ph.d.s who that effort. thank you. of another port tremendous woman, senator we were able to pass the we were able to pass the starr act and can you give us an idea of how you will use this? it will pass the house very soon and become law. >> sure. i can directly comment on legislation. first-off, thank you for the visit. a lot to the pediatric doctors. wonderful s really and thank you for your support of senator capito's support cancer research. the starr act, the intent of it, it's very laudable to address issues in pediatric oncology and hildhood cancers that are important. one issue is survivorship the good news about pediatric we're curing more and more kids but the two problems s, we're not curing everyone, and a lot of the kids we cure are left with lifelong toxicities. results from therapy can be quite debilitating, translating disfiguring ity, surgery, cognitive dysfunction decades.s for so survivorship has become an issue. pafl a million pediatric cancer su