John McCain: Town Hall 07/29/08

John McCain
Town Hall
Sparks, NV 07/29/08

TRANSCRIPT:
QUESTIONER: "Mr. McCain I too am a cancer survivor, I've been cancer free for seven years. It was a very hard job, the hardest job I've ever had. What would you do about stem cell research? I know two women in Montana that had it done and are surviving breast cancer to this day. Please sir, we need the help to help cancer survivors survive this terrible, deadly, ongoing disease sir."

JOHN MCCAIN: "Thank you. I, just a few days ago, attended Lance Armstrong's gathering, Livestrong. Where advocates and people that are victims, and people that are suffering right now from cancer, gather and try to help galvanize support. First of all let me say, I support, it's a very tough decision, but I support stem cell research. I believe it because I think it can help America. And as you know there have been dramatic improvements in skin cell research, which I hope will make that discussion academic. I also want to provide you with a little hope because I think it's justified, because the mapping of the human genome was one of the major breakthroughs in history, and probably is less appreciated as to its impact on our ability to literally cure diseases that most experts, all of us, had written off as incurable. So I'm excited about what's going on in America in research and study. But I also know that is a small comfort to people that are undergoing the great tragedy and affliction of cancer today. I also am a "cancer survivor" but it's been 8 years in my case too, but if I could ask for a commercial, and everyone has there personal opinion, if you would listen to my commercial for one second. Particularly in states like ours where there is lots of sunshine, stay out of the sun, use sunscreen, if you see a small child without sunscreen on go over and berate the mother or father and get, make sure people understand the sun can be a killer. And it's called Melanoma."

LABEL: JM NV 07-29 (KF#3) AEGHI - ClipL

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• Stem
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