Make we talk am straight, pancreatic cancer no dey play. E be like say dem wan cut funding for research wey fit save life, and that one no go gree!

Today, PanCAN don gather with other medical warrior organizations to fight for better funding to help people wey dey face this cancer wahala. Lawmakers dey discuss spending bills wey go fit increase money for National Cancer Institute (NCI) and Department of Defense research programs. Dem need to act fast to ensure say dis funding go land like gbedu for our community.

For pancreatic cancer, we no fit afford to waste time. Every second matter, and patients dey wait for better treatments wey fit change their story. Dem need to hear from you o! If you fit shout to your Congress members make dem pass the bills wey go give this critical funding, e go help many lives.

As we dey talk now, government dey negotiate budgets but dem get wahala wey fit lead to long-term funding freeze. And you know say if dem freeze am, na so we go dey for 0 level for research! No way! Patients can’t wait, funding must gree enter! You fit support pancreatic cancer research just by rising your voice, wetin you dey wait for?

Last week, PanCAN President, Julie Fleshman, lend her voice abi, dey go directly meet with lawmakers for Capitol Hill. Wetin she dey preach? She remind dem say research wey dey happen now fit give hope, better treatment, and longer life for patients. E don show beta respect for past research, no need to drag back now.

Funding for cancer research don dey slow down because of the government shutdown wey don cause wahala. New patients no fit join clinical trials, and new grants dey wait for approval. This delay no dey helpful at all. De more we wait, na so de gap go dey widens for people wey suppose dey receive beta care.

Dem don also slash funding before, but we no go make this one happen again. As we dey push for appropriations bill to come out, we sabi say government need to hear our voice. If we no shout, e fit be say dem go think say everything dey okay. But we dey here to prove dem wrong!

PanCAN and dem partners dey work together like gengen rats to ensure say funding for pancreatic cancer research no go fall hand. For the future of many families, for the cancer patients wey dey depend on this research, we need to be heard! With each letter and call, dem go sabi say we serious.

There’s no way we go allow congress to ignore the funding need for PCARP. This program no get alternative wey dey fund pancreatic cancer research; na wetin we dey fight for. Make we stand together and show strength as a community. Because together, we get mouth and strength to make una sabi say action dey urgent!