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Overview The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) empowers advocates across the country to make their voices heard and influence evidence-based public policy change, as well as legislative and regulatory solutions that will reduce the cancer burden. As part of this effort, ACS CAN deploys surveys to better understand cancer patient and survivor experiences and perspectives, through our Survivor Views ... using a plan purchased privately such as through the marketplace. Nine percent of those who did not have biomarker testing say it was because of cost or coverage concerns. This is a significant improvement since the last time this question was asked in 2020, when 29% mentioned cost and ...

... article, entitled “Trends in Quit Attempts Among Adult Cigarette Smokers — United States, 2001–2013,” is featured in this week’s issue of the CDC journal, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The report details that while quit attempts increased steadily from 2001 to 2010, and ... to quit from 2011 to 2013, overall adult quit attempts have remained steady. A statement from American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) follows: “While CDC data offers promising news showing  two thirds of adult smokers making an attempt to quit tobacco, the data indicating ... Care Act, most private health plans must cover comprehensive cessation services, including both FDA-approved medications and counseling, at no cost to the smoker. These services offer the best opportunity to help smokers quit a powerful and deadly addiction. The administration has an ...

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Early this morning Congress released a proposed FY 2023 funding deal that includes an increase of $2.5 billion for biomedical research funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), $408 million more for cancer research at the National ... or improve access to palliative care.   A statement from Lisa Lacasse, president of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) follows: Cancer Research “Cancer research is one of the most promising fields of biomedical discovery and sustained year-over-year increases ... trials act which would address ancillary costs when enrollees must travel, such as transportation and lodging, which for too long have been cost barriers for participation.    “A five-year extension of additional federal funding for Medicaid in Puerto Rico and a permanent extension ...

In less than a month, three states – Maine , New Jersey and Oregon – have enacted laws that prohibit the selling of cigarettes and other tobacco products to anyone under the age of 21. Smoking rates have declined in recent years, but the use of cigarettes by children and teens remains unacceptably high. In 2015, 25% of high ... teenage years that most of them will never start smoking later,” said Christopher Friend, the Oregon Government Relations Director at ACS CAN. If the sales age was raised to 21 nationally, it’s estimated there would be 223,000 fewer premature deaths, according to an Institute of ...