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Mississippi’s State Legislature Ranks Last in Nation on Cancer Fighting Public Policies
... 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, Mississippi measured up to policy recommendations in none of the eight evaluated issue areas. The report was released today by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). The 17 th edition of the report highlights that Mississippi must do more to reduce suffering and death from cancer. “This year alone ...