Twenty-two public health and patient advocacy groups submitted a letter to the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) today requesting it reconsider its 2016 colorectal cancer screening recommendation before its currently scheduled review in 2021.
Today, Gov. Bruce Rauner vetoed a bill to raise the minimum age of tobacco sales to 21 years old. In response, Shana Crews, Illinois government relations director for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, issued the following statement:
The U.S. Senate approved an FY 2019 spending bill today that includes a $2 billion funding increase for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a $190 million funding boost for the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
SAN ANTONIO, Texas – With an estimated 121,860 Texans receiving a cancer diagnosis this year, it has never more important to discuss what can be done to prevent suffering and death from cancer. The fifth annual American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network of Texas’ policy forum series will bring together
Please join us in welcoming MacKenzie Nicholson as our new Grassroots Manager for New Hampshire! MacKenzie comes to us from Every Child Matters, where she served as their Field Director and worked on numerous issues including Medicaid expansion. MacKenzie received her undergraduate degree from the University of New Hampshire and
Across New Mexico, ACS CAN ambassadors are sharing their stories with lawmakers on key legislative issues. Today we share a story about personally benefiting from palliative care by Judy Towers, an ambassador living in Santa Fe.
Help us make cancer an election issue. ACS CAN has created a tool that includes three pre-written questions, along with a few facts about our legislative issues, that you can use to talk to the candidates running to be Minnesota's next governor or your state representative about cancer issues. If
