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Local Las Vegas Cancer Advocate is in Nation’s Capital to Urge Federal Lawmakers to Make Cancer a Top Priority

... Jasperson and her fellow volunteers are asking their Members of Congress to:   Increase funding for research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by $2.5 billion for Fiscal Year 2020 All of us have been touched by cancer – whether it’s a friend, family or ourselves directly. ... products and helping to prevent youth use, Members of Congress have the opportunity to reduce future cancer diagnoses.   Support the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (PCHETA) From the very moment a person hears the words “you have cancer,” they deal with the ... side effects, and they face the potential of lingering physical symptoms during survivorship. ACS CAN is leading an effort to make palliative care more easily available to people who need it, by supporting PCHETA, a bipartisan bill that focuses on palliative care research, workforce ...

Local Cancer Survivors and Patients Gain Support from Nevada Lawmakers After Trip to D.C.

... more than 700 cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers from across the United States to meet with and urge lawmakers to prioritize cancer care and prevention.  Nevada’s volunteers have been touched by cancer in some way. Moyle is set to begin treatment for breast cancer after being ... asked Nevada’s congressional delegation to support an increase in federal funding for cancer research through the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The group also asked lawmakers to support a bill which would waive out-of-pocket costs for individuals with the highest risk of ...

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 ...

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