A House subcommittee has advanced a bill to set up an annual appropriation of three MILLION dollars for pediatric cancer research in Iowa. A group of parents were at the Capitol yesterday (Wednesday) urging lawmakers to pass the plan. Kristi Polonsky of Fairfield spoke on behalf of her son Jack, who died of cancer last July at the age of 15.
“Nebraska’s been doing this for 12 years. They were actually the first state to really put in state funding for this,” Polonsky said. “They have 10 new drug treatments for brain cancer. They’re working with pediatric cancer…We would like to see the State of Iowa join them in that mission.”
The bill that would provide state government funding for research of treatments for childhood cancers is eligible for a vote in the House Appropriations Committee next week.
