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From Bench to Bedside: Progress at Risk

... from cancer by highlighting federally-funded scientists who have discovered new ways to treat specific cancers, including breast cancer, melanoma and lung cancer and the patients who benefited from those advances. We brought some of the individuals highlighted in the report to ...

New York, Rhode Island Take Steps to Protect Minors from Skin Cancer

... with lawmakers during the campaigns. Maggie Biggane and Collette Coyne both lost their daughters, Mollie and Collette, far too soon due to melanoma. They bravely shared their stories with New York lawmakers to show how comprehensive legislation is necessary to protect all minors from ...

New Survey: Utilization Management Delays Cancer Care; Leads to More Stress and Contributes to Worse Outcomes

... Hepatitis B Foundation, International Myeloma Foundation, Lung Cancer Alliance, LUNGevity, Lupus Foundation of America, MAPRx Coalition, Melanoma Research Foundation, Mens Health Network, Mental Health America, Movement Disorders Policy Coalition, National Alliance on Mental Illness, ...

ACS CAN New York State 2016 Budget and Legislative Priorities

... cases in the United States are attributed to indoor tanning each year.  Using a tanning device before the age of 35 increases the risk of melanoma by a staggering 59 percent.  Recommendation: Protect teens and college age students by increasing the age to use indoor tanning devices ...

ACS CAN Report Highlights Critical Need for Sustained Funding for Cancer Research

... funded scientists and collaborative work, the report documents progress in the fight against specific cancers, including breast cancer, melanoma and lung cancer such as GleevacŒ¬, which can repress the symptoms of leukemia to such a degree that Manny Ortiz of Woburn, Mass. ran the ...

Young Adults at Higher Cancer Risk

... save my life. But I’ve seen the other side. I watched as my brother lost his best friend at age 25 to a preventable and treatable cancer – melanoma – because he didn’t have health insurance that would have allowed him to see a doctor earlier and given him a fighting chance against ...

$1.50 Tobacco Tax Tops Agenda at Cancer Awareness Day at the Capitol

... Worse yet, one in nine high school girls use tanning devices despite the fact that indoor tanning before the age of 35 increases the risk of melanoma by 59 percent,” said ACS CAN New Mexico Government Relations Director Sandra Adondakis. A bill to improve patient quality of life ...

New Study Shows Cancer Rates Rising in Women; Advocates Urge Hawaii State Lawmakers to Support Cancer Fight in 2025

... and smoking cessation.  Incidence rates continue to climb for common cancers, as well, including breast, prostate, pancreatic, uterine corpus, melanoma, liver, and oral cancers associated with HPV.  In 2025, more than 9,000 residents in Hawaii will be diagnosed with cancer, with more than ...

Advocates Hold Cancer Action Day at State House, Urging Lawmakers to Expand Access to Biomarker Testing & Address Affordability Concerns

... medicine treatments that have been proven to reduce risk of death and improve quality of life. ACS CAN volunteer Nanci Carney shared her melanoma diagnosis and the role that biomarker testing played in her treatment and survivorship. “Biomarker testing is a part of why I’m here ...

Personalized Medicine: The Future of Cancer Care

... (EGFR and ALK) that make up the array of lung cancer types. In other types of cancer, we also have targeted therapies, for example against melanoma with a BRAF genetic mutation and in breast cancer with abnormal genes for a protein known as HER2. While we have seen the development of a ...

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