SLS 16RS-2576 ORIGINAL
2016 Regular Session
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 113
BY SENATOR MARTINY
SENATE. Recognizes Monday, May 9, 2016, as Louisiana Gray Day to increase awareness
of brain cancer and to encourage everyone to wear gray on that day.
1 A RESOLUTION
2 To recognize Monday, May 9, 2016, as Louisiana Gray Day to increase brain cancer
3 awareness and to encourage everyone to wear gray on that day.
4 WHEREAS, brain cancer is one of the most incurable forms of cancer and has an
5 average survival period of only one to two years; and
6 WHEREAS, brain cancer strikes men, women, and children of every race and age;
7 and
8 WHEREAS, brain tumors are the second leading cause of cancer-related death in
9 children under the age of twenty; and
10 WHEREAS, approximately seventeen thousand people in the United States are
11 diagnosed with cancer that began in or near the brain every year and this category of brain
12 cancer is labeled as primary; and
13 WHEREAS, an additional one hundred thousand people in the United States are
14 diagnosed each year with brain or spinal cord cancer that began in another part of the body
15 and these cancers are labeled as secondary; and
16 WHEREAS, today, nearly seven hundred thousand people in the United States are
17 living with a primary brain tumor and approximately one hundred seventy people born today
18 will be diagnosed with brain cancer during their lifetime; and
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1 WHEREAS, the most highly aggressive and deadliest form of brain cancer is
2 Glioblastoma Multiforme, known as "GBM"; and
3 WHEREAS, because the brain is essential to the central nervous system, to thought,
4 speech, emotions, vision, hearing, and movement, among many other functions, more than
5 any other cancer, brain cancer can have life-altering psychological, cognitive, behavioral and
6 physical effects; and
7 WHEREAS, the month of May is nationally recognized as brain cancer awareness
8 month and on May 9 of each year the citizens of Louisiana are encouraged to wear the color
9 gray to raise brain cancer awareness; and
10 WHEREAS, recognizing May 9, 2016, as Louisiana Gray Day will help to bring
11 greater awareness of brain cancer and, perhaps, prevent some deaths from brain cancer
12 through early detection; and
13 WHEREAS, in 2014, former Senator Mary Landrieu authored a resolution in the
14 United States Senate to recognize May 9, 2014, as Louisiana Gray Day partly to honor the
15 life of Gary Leingang, cut short by brain cancer, and his wife, Mona Leingang, who
16 continues the fight to raise awareness of this destructive disease; and
17 WHEREAS, as each day brings new treatments for and better detection of brain
18 cancer, it is hoped that awareness of this disease will hasten the day when this devastating
19 and life-altering disease will be curable.
20 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
21 does hereby recognize Monday, May 9, 2016, as Louisiana Gray Day to increase awareness
22 of brain cancer and to encourage everyone to wear gray on that day.
23 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to
24 Mrs. Mona Leingang.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Mary Dozier O'Brien.
DIGEST
SR 113 Original 2016 Regular Session Martiny
Recognizes Monday, May 9, 2016, as Louisiana Gray Day to increase awareness of brain
cancer and to encourage everyone to wear gray on that day.
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