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