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Texas Senators Take Important Step to Address High Colorectal Cancer Mortality Rates in the State

... TX – March 9, 2021 – Late last week, Sen. Joan Huffman and Sen. Judith Zaffirini filed bill SB 1028 that would ensure insurance coverage of colorectal screenings for men and women across Texas starting at the age of 45 and would remove cost-sharing for a follow-up colonoscopy following a positive stool based screening test which would align with the American Cancer Society (ACS) ... is one of the few preventable cancers, it remains the second leading cause of cancer death in Texas. Early detection of cancer through screening can improve survival and reduce mortality by detecting cancer at an early stage when treatment is more effective.. “I’m proud to author SB ...

House Subcommittee Hearing to Highlight Critical Need for Palliative Care

... hearing today on H.R. 3119, the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (PCHETA), is a major step forward in advancing quality of life for cancer patients, survivors and their families. The palliative care legislation would increase federal research on palliative care and ... establish a national public education and awareness campaign to educate patients and health care providers about the availability and benefits of palliative care. R. Sean Morrison, M.D., director of the Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in ... quality of care and quality of life for adults and children with serious illness. The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) was a leading member in founding the coalition in 2013. Dr. Morrison will make the case that medical care for the seriously ill is ...

July 2011 Monthly Advocacy Update

... RESEARCH AND PREVENTION PROGRAMS With negotiations over the debt limit and deficit preoccupying Congressional leaders and the White House, ACS CAN wrote to the president and the bipartisan leadership of the House and Senate today asking that a full scale effort against cancer be made a top priority as negotiations continue. Read the letter and ... first time since the Medicare program was created in 1965, Medicare now covers an annual wellness visit with a participating doctor, also at no cost.   CMS has also launched an outreach and education campaign -- Share the News, Share the Health -- to promote the benefits throughout the ...

July 2011 Monthly Advocacy Update

... RESEARCH AND PREVENTION PROGRAMS With negotiations over the debt limit and deficit preoccupying Congressional leaders and the White House, ACS CAN wrote to the president and the bipartisan leadership of the House and Senate today asking that a full scale effort against cancer be made a top priority as negotiations continue. Read the letter and ... first time since the Medicare program was created in 1965, Medicare now covers an annual wellness visit with a participating doctor, also at no cost.   CMS has also launched an outreach and education campaign -- Share the News, Share the Health -- to promote the benefits throughout the ...

July 2011 Monthly Advocacy Update

... RESEARCH AND PREVENTION PROGRAMS With negotiations over the debt limit and deficit preoccupying Congressional leaders and the White House, ACS CAN wrote to the president and the bipartisan leadership of the House and Senate today asking that a full scale effort against cancer be made a top priority as negotiations continue. Read the letter and ... first time since the Medicare program was created in 1965, Medicare now covers an annual wellness visit with a participating doctor, also at no cost.   CMS has also launched an outreach and education campaign -- Share the News, Share the Health -- to promote the benefits throughout the ...

July 2011 Monthly Advocacy Update

... RESEARCH AND PREVENTION PROGRAMS With negotiations over the debt limit and deficit preoccupying Congressional leaders and the White House, ACS CAN wrote to the president and the bipartisan leadership of the House and Senate today asking that a full scale effort against cancer be made a top priority as negotiations continue. Read the letter and ... first time since the Medicare program was created in 1965, Medicare now covers an annual wellness visit with a participating doctor, also at no cost.   CMS has also launched an outreach and education campaign -- Share the News, Share the Health -- to promote the benefits throughout the ...

American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Advocates For 61-Cent Federal Cigarette Tax Increase

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- July 16, 2007 -- The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network SM (ACS CAN) today sent a letter to the members of the Senate Finance Committee urging approval of a 61 cents per pack increase in the federal cigarette excise tax and a comparable increase for other tobacco products. The tax increase is ...

2020 Colorado Policy and Legislative Priorities

A Year of Prevention www.fightcancer.org/Colorado The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network will focus 2020 state legislative priorities on cancer prevention in the areas of tobacco control, colorectal cancer, and skin cancer.    Tobacco Control Raising the minimum age of sale to 21 would reduce initiation, ... tanning devices for individuals under the age of 18 without any exemptions are effective in deterring minors from using tanning devices and can help to reduce skin cancer incidence and mortality rates across the country. 2020 Colorado Policy and Legislative Priorities ...

Cancer-Fighting Advocates Mark Great American Smokeout by Calling for Action to Prevent Tobacco Addiction

... are marking the American Cancer Society's 47 th annual Great American Smokeout tomorrow by calling on elected officials to protect the health of all Vermont residents by implementing strong tobacco control legislation. Advocates note that the need is particularly strong in Vermont, where ... earnings. Unsurprisingly, states with weaker tobacco control policies experienced significantly higher deaths.  In Vermont, nearly one third of cancer deaths can be attributed to smoking, and the state incurs an average of $404 million in health care costs directly caused by smoking every year. "Nearly ...

President’s FY 23 Budget Jeopardizes Essential National Cancer Institute Resources, Boosts ARPA-H Funding

WASHINGTON, D.C.—  Monday the Biden administration released its FY 2023 budget, which includes $5 billion for the forthcoming creation of the Advanced Research Project on Health (ARPA-H) but reduces funding by nearly $200 million for the National Cancer Institute (NCI); a scenario which may threaten to undermine the president’s recently relaunched Cancer Moonshot effort and his goal of ‘ending cancer as we know it.’ Congress increased funding for NCI and appropriated $1 billion to ARPA-H in the FY 22 omnibus earlier this ... are critically needed. A statement on the proposed budget from Lisa Lacasse, president of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) follows: “The president’s budget, unfortunately, creates a scenario where ARPA-H is being created to the detriment of NCI and NIH more ...

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