When Bozeman resident and longtime cancer support advocate Becky Franks left for Washington, D.C., earlier this month, she wasn’t chasing the partisan drama most Americans know all too well.

Rather, with decades of experience in cancer support, she traveled to Capitol Hill with an urgent message: Health care is not political.

Alongside hundreds of cancer patients, survivors and their loved ones, Franks journeyed to the nation’s capital to meet with Montana’s congressional delegation and press them to protect cancer research, treatment access and early detection.

Franks, the former CEO of Cancer Support Community Montana and now a volunteer with the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, spent two days in the halls of Congress. Her agenda was to encourage legislators to preserve

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