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2020 Colorado Policy Forum
... focus of the event will be upon science and evidence-based cancer prevention efforts for the next decade and beyond. Key stakeholders from the health care industry, nonprofit, government, and academic sectors will join cancer patients and caregivers virtually for a status report on state and ...
Colorado Cancer Advocates Call on State Lawmakers to Continue Progress in Fight Against Cancer
... lawmakers to help promote cancer prevention, early detection of cancer, and expanding access to new methods of innovative, quality, affordable health care. ACS CAN looks forward to working with Colorado’s leaders in making progress in the fight against cancer in 2025.” ACS CAN Colorado ... cancer screening and treatment program for low-income uninsured and underinsured women administered by the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment through the Women’s Wellness Connection. Funding for FY 2025-2026 is projected to be $3 million. These funds are derived ...
YOUTH TOBACCO PREVENTION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY 2.0
... Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), the nation’s largest patient advocacy organization, in partnership with stakeholders from the local health care and tobacco control community. ACS CAN, the nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society, supports evidence-based policy and legislative solutions designed to eliminate cancer as a major health problem. ACS CAN works to encourage elected officials and candidates to make cancer a top national priority. ACS CAN gives ordinary ...
Cancer Advocates Urge Colorado Legislators to Take Critical Step to Connect Patients with Most Effective Treatment Options
... They urged lawmakers to pass SB 124 , which if enacted would ensure biomarker testing is covered by more insurance plans, including Health First Colorado, when supported by medical and scientific evidence. “Every year on Cancer Action Day, people who have been touched ... Coloradans are missing out on biomarker testing. Communities of color, individuals with limited income, rural residents and patients receiving care in non-academic medical centers are less likely to receive guideline-indicated biomarker testing. Senate Bill 124 -- co-sponsored by Senator Janice Rich, Senator Dafna Michaelson Jenet and Representative Anthony Hartsook -- would help address this health injustice," said R.J. Ours, government relations director for ACS CAN Colorado. To date, 15 states across the country have passed ...
Cancer Advocates Commend Colorado Lawmakers for Positive First Step in Opening Door to Precision Medicine
... with the right treatment at the right time through biomarker testing . The bill would ensure more patients with private insurance will have health insurance coverage for the biomarker testing they need. SB24-124 will affect medical health coverage plans for over one million Coloradans or roughly 33% of those with private health insurance coverage. Unfortunately, the bill does ... improve access to biomarker testing for Medicaid enrollees, which accounts for more than 1.6 Coloradans, according to the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. “Biomarker testing can be game changing for many cancer patients,” said R.J. Ours, ACS CAN Colorado government ...
ACS CAN Urges Yes Vote on Basalt's Tobacco Tax Increase on April Ballot
... of preventable death. Smoking-related illness in the Centennial State costs $1.89 billion a year, including more than $386 million in Medicaid care. Lost productivity caused by smoking in Colorado totals $1.27 billion annually. These amounts do not include health costs caused by exposure to secondhand smoke, smoking-caused fires, smokeless tobacco use, or cigar and pipe smoking. Revenue from the new tobacco tax would be invested back into the Basalt community to help finance local health and human services, tobacco-related health issues, and addiction and substance abuse education and mitigation. ACS CAN, the nonprofit, ...
ACS CAN Lauds Governor John Hickenlooper's Veto of Senate Bill 18-179
... R.J. Ours, ACS CAN Colorado government relations director. "Senate Bill 18-179 would have reduced resources for a number of Colorado’s public health programs, including health care for children, tobacco prevention and cessation, and cancer early detection and treatment capabilities provided by the proceeds of the tobacco ...
Medical Doctors and Researchers Highlight Decline in Cancer Screenings During Colorado Cancer Policy Forum
... (ACS CAN) hosted its 15th annual Colorado Policy Forum at the University of Colorado Cancer Center, Wednesday evening. Leaders from the public health, business, education, and government sectors gathered learn about the work being done to try to end cancer in the state. During the event, ... are likely to impact the survival rates across groups of people who have systemically experienced social or economic obstacles to screening and care. According to the American Cancer Society, more than 28,000 Coloradans will be diagnosed with cancer this year. Of those, more than 8,000 are ...
New Report: Colorado Gets Mixed Results on Cancer-Fighting Public Policies
... their families." How Do You Measure Up? rates states in eight specific areas of public policy that can help fight cancer: increased access to care through Medicaid, access to palliative care, balanced pain control policies, cigarette tax levels, smoke-free laws, funding for tobacco prevention and cessation programs, cessation ... and implementing the policy recommendations in this report would not only save lives in Colorado, it would also save millions in long-term health care costs and in some cases even generate additional, much-needed revenue for the state." A color-coded system classifies how well a ...
Gov. Polis Signs Bill Increasing Access to Clinical Trials
... for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), issued the following statement: “The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the health disparities that underserved communities face. Like COVID-19, cancer affects everyone, but it doesn’t affect everyone equally. More than ... year, but not all of them will equally benefit from medical advances in cancer prevention, early detection, diagnostic testing and treatment care. “Clinical trials are a significant way to advance life-saving cancer treatments and this bill will ensure more Coloradans have an ...