According to the Buffalo News, Darryl Strawberry attended PhRMA's recent event at the Hauptman-Woodward Institute on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. Strawberry, a former baseball player, battled colon cancer. He spoke on the importance of regular colon cancer screening.
"I was running around the field in 1998 with a tumor in me the size of a grapfruit and didn't know it," he said.
The Buffalo event highlighted new medicines in development as well as publicized a report on 680 new medicines in development by biotechnology companies in New York State.
Ken Johnson, a senior vice president, said the pharmaceutical industry has committeed to helping the federal government save $80 billion over 10 years.
