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... the least, filled with last minute surprises, pension reform, and a tax bill with changes going until the very last day.  Despite a multitude of distractions, ACS CAN volunteers made their voices known.  While cancer was not made the state priority that it should be this year, and we must make sure our ... funding.  When the governor’s proposed budget came out in January, it eliminated all prior cancer control funds.  Thankfully, and because of our incredible volunteers, the majority of that funding was reinstated – with some increases!    The final two-year budget included: $1 ...

Anchorage, AK – August 4, 2016 – Alaska is doing well but needs to improve its policies to make pain treatment, including use of pain medications like opioids, available to cancer patients and others with serious illnesses, according to a new report funded by the American Cancer Society and its advocacy affiliate, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). Alaska is one of just seven states to improve its pain policies since 2013. The report, Achieving Balance in State Pain Policy: A Progress Report Card (CY 2015) ...

... males aged 15 to 39 were 1.5 times as likely as those with private insurance to be diagnosed with cancer that has metastasized to distant parts of the body, or what the study calls distant cancer. Uninsured females in that age group were nearly twice as likely as those with private ... The Affordable Care Act, with its focus on increasing private insurance coverage of young adults and providing certain cancer screenings at no cost to patients, has the potential to make a big impact on this age group, said Anthony Robbins, MD, PhD, the American Cancer Society 's director ... scientific journal CANCER. An abstract of the study is at http://bit.ly/1ddaKPM . A PDF copy of the full study is available upon request. ACS CAN, the nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society, supports evidence-based policy and legislative solutions ...

... week, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy released his proposed budget for 2025. In response, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) New Jersey Government Relations Director Quinton Law issued the following statement, highlighting how Governor Murphy can amplify his intended impact of improving public health and addressing the deficit by increasing the cigarette tax by $1 per pack. “In proposing to increase New Jersey’s ... Governor Murphy and the Legislature to consider a $1.00 increase in the tax. In doing so, state leaders can offset the predatory practices of the tobacco industry, limit tobacco’s presence in New Jerseyans’ lives and lungs, save the state on health care costs and generate much ...