Juneau – Representative Jason Grenn’s (I-Anchorage) second piece of legislative reform, House Concurrent Resolution 1, earned support from the majority of the body today, but ultimately failed to meet the two-thirds vote required to change the Uniform Rules.
Rep. Petersen’s resolution will raise awareness of deadly disease
JUNEAU – Today, the Alaska Legislature passed a resolution naming November 2011 Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month. Rep. Pete Petersen introduced the legislation to raise awareness of the deadly disease after a constituent told him of her father’s difficult battle with pancreatic cancer and the relative lack of research and attention the disease gets.
Over 43,000 people were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the United States (US) in 2010. Almost 37,000 will die from the disease. Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the US and ranks as one of the deadliest cancers with no real improvement in survival rates in the last 40 years.
