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... -- American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) volunteer and breast cancer survivor Anne Creech joined Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and other officials today at the U.S. Capitol to celebrate new requirements taking effect tomorrow that new private health plans cover specific women's preventive services at no cost to patients. The new health benefits include women's preventive services that ... and catching it early, such as annual well-women visits and HPV co-testing for cervical cancer. Mikulski's bipartisan Women's Preventive Health Care Amendment to the Affordable Care Act empowered HHS to develop guidelines on coverage of women's preventive care. The preventive benefits that ...

... introduced bipartisan legislation today that would improve the experience of cancer patients and their families by better coordinating their care from the point of diagnosis and addressing the often debilitating symptoms of treatment. The bill would put in place the building blocks ... bill would facilitate and expand federal research into palliative care; support training for nurses, nurse practitioners and other allied health professionals to effectively practice palliative care; and establish a national palliative care public education and awareness campaign. ... 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 people ...

... "Of particular note, Speaker Pelosi promoted support for robust and sustained investment in cancer research at the National Institutes of Health and National Cancer Institute; elimination of discrimination and increased access to affordable, comprehensive health care through passage of the Affordable Care Act; and advancement of evidence-based tobacco control laws that have encouraged adults to quit and ...

ACS CAN was back walking the halls of Congress to protect an important health program. Along with representatives from 40 organizations, ACS CAN met with more than 70 U.S. Representatives and Senators to discuss the ... cancer and detect it early, we can prevent roughly half of all cancer deaths. The ask was clear - protect funding for the Prevention and Public Health Fund. The fund, a new initiative created by the Affordable Care Act, provides an expanded and sustained national investment in prevention and public health programs to improve health and help restrain ...