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... to address the following five strategic goals set forth to end cancer as we know it: catalyze new scientific breakthroughs, unleash the power of data, accelerate bringing new therapies to patients, strengthen prevention and diagnosis, and improve patient access and care. Among the ... chief cancer control officer for the American Cancer Society. “The Task Force recommendations shine an important light on specific steps that can be acted upon immediately that to exponentially reduce the cancer burden in this country.” The Task Force also acknowledges the critical ... The report specifically calls out an opportunity to close a loophole in Medicare that results in seniors facing unexpected and expensive cost-sharing when a polyp is removed during a routine screening colonoscopy. By removing that cost sharing, seniors on a fixed budget won’t put ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. July 18, 2012 -People with cancer and their families are disappointed that appropriators in the U.S. House of Representatives plan to flat line cancer research and eliminate funding for critical programs that would improve access to chronic disease ... advances in early detection and treatment of cancer are completely dependent on consistent funding for research that keeps up with the growing cost of medical research and leverages past progress. This bill fails to keep pace and puts the continued preeminence of American leadership in ... and treatment of chronic diseases like cancer. Resurrecting barriers to care by defunding grants to help set up marketplaces where people can shop and compare options for quality coverage and stripping funding for the Prevention and Public Health Fund which is refocusing the nation on ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), the advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society, today announced an additional $2.5 million donation to help pass the June 5 ballot ... life-saving cancer research right here in California and it will save lives. Prop 29, an initiative on the June 5 primary ballot, will raise the cost of a pack of cigarettes by $1 and dedicate those new funds to lifesaving research on cancer and other tobacco-related diseases and smoking ...

This past Saturday, Governor Rick Perry of Texasξsigned into law House Bill 438 that requires oral chemo to be covered in the same way that intravenous chemo is covered. Cancer ... that they had good health insurance, but because oral chemotherapy was the only treatment for them and they could not afford the out-of-pocket cost, they were not receiving treatment at all. In addition to the financial burden and concern about the most effective treatment, some cancer patients were traveling hours to treatment centers to receive IV therapy when an oral chemo more targeted to their cancer can be taken in the comfort of their own home.ξThe law will beξeffective on September 1, 2011.ξ Congratulations, Texas! Texas Chemotherapy ...