U.S. Reps. Colin Allred and Joaquin Castro participate in a health care roundtable at the North East Bexar County Democrats office.U.S. Rep. Colin Allred , who hopes to make health care a top issue in Texas’ U.S. Senate race this year, huddled with local health care experts in San Antonio Monday.
Since the last Texas Senate race, health care has only been further thrust into the spotlight by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, paving the way for Texas’ to set its own abortion restrictions, Allred said. “My mom had breast cancer and a mastectomy,” he said. “These are kind of things that just happen, right?”“Two years ago I got diagnosed with cancer and had major surgery last year, a 10-day stay at MD Anderson ,” Castro said. “Because of that I have to take, as part of that treatment, a drug every month called Lanreotide.”to slow the growth of tumors that can’t be removed.