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More Than 100 Volunteers Will Ask Legislature to Prioritize Cancer Prevention

... in health care bills each year, but the state ranks 50 th in the nation in spending for tobacco cessation and prevention. With 63 percent of Missouri’s adults intending to quit in the next six months, woefully underfunded programs such as the Missouri Tobacco Quitline are in high ... Day at the Capitol will ask lawmakers to maintain general revenue funding for tobacco cessation in House Bill 10 through the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. Volunteers will also ask legislators to continue to support Show-Me Healthy Women. Now in its 25 th year, this state ... to Missouri’s low-income, uninsured and other medically underserved women. Nearly 90,000 women in the state qualify for this program. For ACS CAN volunteers Allison Johnson and Keith Whittemore, this day is personal: Johnson was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma at age 19 while at the ...

2018 Legislative Session Update

... Legislative Session was the last session under current leadership, sandwiched between a hurricane and a campaign season. There was a fair amount of controversy, which led to dead legislation and stripped funding. However, through all the conflict you all did a great job of helping with our messaging and reaching the legislators in assistance with our lobbying team in Tallahassee. We are happy to report that the ... including more than $178.8 million in mission-related appropriations is awaiting the Governor’s approval, including funding for three of ACS CAN’s top priorities.   Mary Brogan Breast & Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program - The Legislature approved total state funding of $1.83 ...

Mary Brogan Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program

... Brogan Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program provides lifesaving cancer screenings for medically underserved women between the ages of 50 and 64 whose incomes are below 200% of the federal poverty level. Women diagnosed with cancer through the program are eligible for a special Medicaid program that covers the costs of ... proposed Senate budget only contains $300,00 for the program, while the House has included the full $1.8 million in non-recurring funds   ACS CAN is asking that the Senate move to the House position of   $1.8 million   Even with the additional state funding, the program is only able to ...

American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Priorities for 2021 Legislative Session: Granite State Budget Opportunities 

CONCORD, NH – As lawmakers dive into the new year, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) looks ahead to what public health initiatives our lawmakers can accomplish in the 2021 legislative session particularly in light of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.  According to Mike Rollo, director of government relations for ACS CAN in New Hampshire, lawmakers have the opportunity ...

Arizona Cancer Advocates Rally Lawmakers to Support Access to Care, Tobacco Control at ‘Cancer Action Day’

... state Capitol on Thursday for ‘Cancer Action Day,’ an event hosted annually by the the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). Advocates met with lawmakers and urged them to support policies that increase access to quality health care and prevent tobacco use.  ... in rates persist, most notably among Native American and Black people. Furthermore, recent data indicates cancer is the second-leading cause of death among Hispanic/Latino people. Compared with non-Hispanic White people, Hispanic men and women are less likely to be diagnosed with the ... urged select lawmakers to hold a hearing for HB 2561 in the House Health and Human Services Committee. If enacted, the bill would provide no-cost follow-up imaging for patients who receive an abnormal result on their initial breast cancer screening. While speaking to volunteers ahead of ...

Great Minds Thinking Alike

Yesterday was an incredible day at ACS CAN Š—– we held our first-ever National Forum on the Future of Health Care and it was a huge success! The conference focused on how to ensure ... cancer and other chronic diseases have access to quality health care. ItŠ—'s a discussion that has grown in intensity since implementation of the Affordable Care Act began, and our forum brought together some of the countryŠ—'s top health care experts to examine the issue. The new ...

Feb. 4 World Cancer Day: Nevada Cancer Advocates Urge Lawmakers to Protect Critical Cancer Prevention Programs

... Society Cancer Action Network urges the legislature to protect funding for breast and cervical cancer screening and tobacco control efforts. ACS CAN is deeply concerned that the state’s proposed budget slashes approximately $2.5 million from Nevada’s already underfunded tobacco prevention program that was being used to address the youth e-cigarette epidemic. Tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable death and smoking is linked to at least 13 types of cancer. Futhermore, 24.1% of Nevada’s high school students use e-cigarettes. ACS CAN knows that comprehensive, adequately funded tobacco ...

Funding Approved for Two Critical SC Cancer-Fighting Programs

... recurring, the legislature has helped to provide these programs with more stability for developing long-range plans to best serve the people of our state.” South Carolina’s BCN was first funded by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in 1991   through the National Breast and ... screening services for uninsured and medically underserved South Carolinian's thereby addressing barriers to care and reducing healthcare cost to our State. In 2016, the CCPN provided colorectal cancer screening to 582 uninsured individuals, which contributed to the removal of ... breast and cervical cancer in 2017.  And, 2,270 men and women in the state are projected to be diagnosed with colorectal cancer. A b out ACS CAN ACS CAN, the nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society, supports evidence-based policy and legislative solutions ...

Cancer Survivors, Caregivers Rally at State Capitol for Improved Prevention

... to call on the General Assembly to make cancer a top legislative priority. Coaches from four state colleges joined volunteers in representation of the Coaches vs. Cancer initiative, a nationwide collaboration between the American Cancer Society and the National Association of Basketball Coaches. The visit was part of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network’s annual Day at the Capitol, in which coaches and ... nationwide, but we still haven’t fully implemented proven ways to prevent the disease in the first place,” said Mark Runyan, a lead ACS CAN volunteer from Eldon. “More than 13,000 Missourians will still lose their lives to cancer in 2018 alone. We’re here today to ask lawmakers ...

Idaho Lawmakers Have Opportunity to Save Lives and Money

... it comes to implementing policies and passing legislation to prevent and reduce suffering and death from cancer. According to the latest edition of How Do You Measure Up?: A Progress Report on State Legislative Activity to Reduce Cancer Incidence and Mortality, Idaho didn’t measure up to any of the policy recommendations in the nine issue areas. The report was released today by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). “This 16th edition of the report shows that we must do more to reduce suffering and death from cancer. One critical area where voters have ...

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