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With across-the-board-federal budget cuts through sequestration set to take effect in less than a month, ACS CAN is strongly urging lawmakers to avert the cuts because of their potentially devastating impact on cancer research. In fact, sequestration would reduce federal funding for cancer research to 2008 levels, and thatŠ—'s without taking into account the increased cost of doing medical research year after year. This severe decrease in funding could halt promising clinical trials and allow breakthroughs in the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) volunteers will head to Capitol Hill today with over 100 other cancer patients, survivors, caregivers, physicians and researchers representing ... federal investment in cancer research and urge lawmakers to make fighting cancer a top national priority. These advocates are uniting as part of the 19 th annual One Voice Against Cancer (OVAC) lobby day to ask their legislators to fund cancer research at the National Cancer Institute ... begun to reverse course after years of flat or reduced funding, funding is still far below where it should be when accounting for the increased cost of doing research. Congress should seize this important opportunity to fully get cancer progress back on track.” More than 1.7 million ...

... and in some cases impossible, for them to access lifesaving care. “The budget proposal would eliminate Medicare’s traditional guarantee of care and instead force seniors to buy private insurance with a subsidy that may be inadequate to pay for necessary coverage for someone with ... proposal would also impact the Medicaid program by financing it through block grants of fixed dollar amounts that would shift the health care cost burden to states and could lead to restrictions in eligibility, enrollment and benefits. These restrictions could increase the number of ... 1,500 people per day in America, or one person every minute. On behalf of the more than 11 million cancer survivors across the country, ACS CAN urges lawmakers of both political parties to work together to correct the elements of this budget proposal that impede patients’ access to ...

... D.C. -- August 27, 2007 -- Presidential forums on cancer scheduled for today and tomorrow in Cedar Rapids, Iowa serve to elevate the importance of cancer on the national agenda and offer an opportunity for all presidential candidates to commit that they will make fighting cancer, the number ... in addressing the cancer crisis," said John R. Seffrin, Ph.D., chief executive officer of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). "Deaths from cancer have declined for the second consecutive year in the United States, but 1.4 Americans will be newly diagnosed with cancer ... and Prevention’s National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program, which provides uninsured and underinsured women with free or low-cost mammograms and Pap tests. This program is funded at a level serving only one out of five eligible women nationwide. No woman should be denied ...