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Expand Access to Biomarker Testing in Nevada

Welcome! Biomarker testing helps connect patients with the right treatment at the right time. ACS CAN and partners are working together to make sure more Nevadans can benefit from this important testing. Hear from patients and caregivers as they share their story about access to biomarker testing. Video of additional_patient_stories_biomarkers   What is Biomarker Testing? In cancer care, biomarkers are often used to help ...

Expand Access to Biomarker Testing in Nevada

Welcome!Biomarker testing helps connect patients with the right treatment at the right time. ACS CAN and partners are working together to make sure more Nevadans can benefit from this important testing.   What is Biomarker Testing? In cancer care, biomarkers are often used to help determine the best treatment for a patient . A “ biomarker ” is a sign of ...

Expand Access to Biomarker Testing in New Jersey

Welcome! Biomarker testing helps connect patients with the right treatment at the right time. ACS CAN and partners are working together to make sure more New Jersey residents can benefit from this important testing.   What is Biomarker Testing? In cancer care, biomarkers are often used to help determine the best treatment for a patient . A “ biomarker ” is a sign of ...

Expand Access to Biomarker Testing in New Hampshire

Biomarker testing helps connect patients with the right treatment at the right time. ACS CAN and partners are working together to make sure more New Hampshire residents can benefit from this important testing.   What is Biomarker Testing? In cancer care, biomarkers are often used to help determine the best treatment for a patient . A “ biomarker ” is a sign of ...

Sign to Expand Access to Biomarker Testing in Maine

Add your voice to our petition to support legislation that would expand health insurance coverage of biomarker testing in Maine. 0 Sign to Expand Access to Biomarker Testing in Maine ...

Sign to Expand Access to Biomarker Testing in Vermont

Add your voice to our petition to support legislation that would expand health insurance coverage of biomarker testing in Vermont. 0 Sign to Expand Access to Biomarker Testing in Vermont ...

Rhode Island Senate Votes to Remove Barriers to Biomarker Testing

PROVIDENCE –Today, the Rhode Island Senate passed legislation that would ensure biomarker testing is covered by more insurance plans, including Medicaid, when patients need it. Dubbed ‘the right treatment, to the right patient, at the right time,’ precision medicine has played a critical role in improving cancer outcomes – biomarker testing being one of the ways we can achieve these outcomes by allowing doctors to understand and target unique markers in a patient’s ...

Sign to Expand Access to Biomarker Testing in New Hampshire

Add your voice to our petition to support legislation that would expand health insurance coverage of biomarker testing in New Hampshire. 0 Sign to Expand Access to Biomarker Testing in New Hampshire ...

ACS CAN Issues New Recommendations to Increase Access to Cancer Biomarker Testing

Washington, D.C.– The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) released new policy recommendations today to increase uptake of biomarker testing and advance the use of precision medicine in cancer care. The recommendations follow the release of new data that shows access is not keeping up with innovation when it comes to biomarker testing.  Progress in improving cancer outcomes increasingly involves the use of precision medicine, which uses information about a ...

Georgia House and Senate Pledge Support for Precision Medicine and Biomarker Testing

ATLANTA, GA – April 4, 2022 – As of late Friday evening, the House and Senate respectively passed a resolution recognizing the benefits of biomarker testing , marking a key step in accessing precision medicine treatments, and increasingly important in the treatment of cancer and other ... with a 31% reduction in mortality for certain lung cancer patients and similar benefits for other cancers.   “Precision medicine and biomarker testing can lead to improved patient survival and quality of life,” said House sponsor Rep. Sharon Cooper (R). “That’s why we must ...

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