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Study: Cancer Rates Rising in Women; Advocates Urge Arizona State Lawmakers to Support Cancer Fight in 2025

... slower reductions in tobacco use. Incidence rates continue to climb for common cancers, including breast, prostate, pancreatic, uterine corpus, melanoma, liver, and oral cancers associated with HPV.  In 2025, more than 42,000 residents in Arizona will be diagnosed with cancer, with more ...

Arizona Cancer Advocates Stage Digital Takeover to Call on Lawmakers to Protect Medicaid

... depends on Medicaid for ongoing screening, I’m calling on Rep. Juan Ciscomani to vote NO to any cuts to the program,” said Candice Mason, melanoma cancer survivor, and ACS CAN volunteer.  “Cuts to this program, in any form, will rip health insurance away from patients and ...

Health Care Providers Call on Governor Hochul to Sign Biomarker Testing Bill without Delay

... treatments that can lead to improved survivorship and quality of life.   Hal Sieger is a cancer survivor from Greenlawn, NY, who beat Stage 4 melanoma in 2012 thanks in part to biomarker testing. Sieger credits access to the testing and Northwell Health for saving his life. “I was first diagnosed in 1988 and was cancer-free for 22 years until the recurrence of melanoma in 2012. Thankfully, biomarker testing and a new drug were available to me. I am extremely grateful for the advances in science, which ...

New Jersey Legislative Priorities Announced

... of cancer risk (Group1) “carcinogenic to humans.”  Scientific data now shows that tanning bed use under the age of 30 increases the risk of melanoma by 75%.  Therefore, the ACS will fight for legislation in NJ that bans tanning bed use for teens under the age of 18. New Jersey ...

Coalition pushes for more restrictions on tanning bed use

... harmful effects of UV tanning not only protects our teens but protects taxpayers as well." Data show the rate of Missouri residents developing melanoma — skin tumors characterized by malignant growths — has doubled in the past nine years. A statewide Public Opinion Strategies poll ...

Cancer Survivors, Caregivers Rally at State Capitol for Improved Prevention

... in the United States and rates have continued to rise over the past 30 years. Approximately 1,800 Missourians will be diagnosed this year with melanoma – the deadliest form of skin cancer. Laws that prohibit young people under age 18 from using tanning devices are effective in deterring ...

Cancer Patients and Survivors Rally Legislators Virtually Due to Coronavirus

... from using indoor tanning devices without exemptions. The use of indoor tanning device before age 35 increases an individual's lifetime risk of melanoma by 59%. One in thirteen high school girls has used a tanning device, with numbers increasing to one in eight by their senior year.  By ...

It’s a Wrap!

... today. Worse yet, 1 in 9 high school girls use tanning devices in spite of the fact indoor tanning before the age of 35 increases the risk of melanoma by 59 percent.  We’re not giving up on this one!   Area of concern A series of bills has passed and been signed by the governor that ...

Activistas contra el cáncer se reúnen con legisladores en el Capitolio de Puerto Rico durante el Día de Acción Contra el Cáncer

... cáncer. En Puerto Rico, los diagnósticos de varios tipos de cáncer van en aumento, incluyendo el cáncer de mama, próstata, del cerebro y melanoma. Los activistas dejaron claro que necesitan que los legisladores hagan todo lo posible por asegurar que los puertorriqueños puedan ...

Arizona falling short on cancer-fighting public policies

... one in five high school girls are using tanning salons despite the fact that indoor tanning before the age of 35 increases  the risk of melanoma by 59 percent. Another area to examine is palliative care services to improve the quality of life for cancer patients and their families. ...

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