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"I am a fighter. I make sure I do what needs to be done," said Efron."It started with my grandmother at seven. I lost her to leukemia, then my dad at 26 to prostate cancer, then my aunt to ovarian cancer at 30, and then of course my mother when I was 35 to pancreatic cancer.""They saw a large, inflamed ball in my head and my parietal lobe and they immediately recommended emergency surgery, brain surgery," said Efron.
"The first was to increase funding for cancer research and prevention and the second was for our lawmakers to co-sponsor two lifesaving bills," said Efron. The Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act has 198 co-sponsors in the House and 46 in the Senate. Once those numbers are a little higher, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network is hopeful it will come to the House floor for a vote.
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