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Feb. 4 World Cancer Day: Nevada Cancer Advocates Urge Lawmakers to Protect Critical Cancer Prevention Programs
... ACS CAN knows that comprehensive, adequately funded tobacco prevention programs reduce tobacco use and related disease, resulting in lower health care costs. In fiscal year 2021, Nevada dedicated just 11.5% of the $30 million recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "We know the economy is tight and lawmakers have tough decisions to make, but cutting funding for public health in the middle of a pandemic is dangerous," said Brook Carlisle, ACS CAN government relations director. "Nevada’s tobacco control program ...
Three-time Cervical Cancer Survivor Highlights Importance of Screening during Awareness Event at Las Vegas Sign
... and immunotherapy. By December, Gonzales-Russell’s cancer was cleared, but returned for a third time in February 2020. This time, her care team in Nevada ran out of treatment options. Gonzales-Russell turned to doctors in Los Angeles and underwent a pelvic exenteration. She now ... to the levels put forward by the Senate, for cancer research and prevention funding. Increased funding would support programs like Women’s Health Connection in Nevada which offers free breast and cervical cancer screenings to low-income, high-risk, uninsured, and underinsured women ...