WASHINGTON — On her late mother’s birthday, Congresswoman Terri Sewell joined Alabamians and hundreds from across the country to advocate for cancer research and push for her cancer screening bill.

In the shadow of the U.S Capitol Tuesday, Sewell spoke on how she’s been personally touched by cancer, losing her mom to pancreatic cancer, only eight weeks after she was diagnosed in 2021.

“It was a devastating loss to my family,” Sewell, D-Birmingham, said at a rally of cancer prevention and research advocates. “In Congress, I have made it a mission to reduce the glaring racial disparities in this disease and to double down on our nation’s efforts to prevent, to screen, to treat and eventually find a cure for cancer.”

Sitting in the audience at the event were several Alabamians who traveled

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