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... are not considered as taxable income or counted against income limits for programs such as Medicaid.  Additionally, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) would be able to provide grants for community education, outreach and recruitment activities to enable greater ... trial engagement with underrepresented populations. Grant-eligible activities would include working with community trial sites and community health centers, training health care personnel and clinical trial investigators, engaging community stakeholders to encourage clinical trial participation and fostering ...

... signature blue ACS CAN shirts, they’ll be armed with three specific asks: Increase funding for cancer research at the National Institutes of Health to $36 billion through the appropriations process Advance legislation to improve the quality of life for cancer patients and survivors by expanding access to palliative care services and coordinated care Support legislation that will close a loophole in Medicare that often results in surprise costs for seniors when a polyp is found during a ...

... will be joined in Washington by her older daughter Liesl, who was just 5 when her sister died. She is now 20 years old and majoring in public health. The Gonzales’s will join more than 200 other cancer patients, survivors and family members in the nation’s capital for Childhood Cancer ... CAN is a member. Participants will ask lawmakers to fully fund the STAR Act, continue to make strong investments in the National Institutes for Health and the National Cancer Institute to help advance discoveries in the fight against childhood cancer, and to pass the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (PCHETA) to advance the quality of life of childhood cancer patients, survivors and their families. An ...

... 17 th annual OVAC lobby day to ask their legislators to fund cancer research at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and National Institutes of Health (NIH). Cancer doesn 't discriminate by race, religion, geographic region or political party, said David Pugach, ACS CAN federal relations ... that includes funding for the NIH and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). For decades, research supported by the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute has played a key role in virtually every major cancer prevention, detection and treatment discovery, ... growing to 2.1 million people diagnosed with cancer in 2025. For a link to the polling memo, click here . For a full list of the OVAC health care groups joining ACS CAN in this year 's lobby day, visit http://ovaconline.org/members.html . ACS CAN , the nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy ...