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... it comes to implementing policies and passing legislation to prevent and reduce suffering and death from cancer. According to the latest edition of How Do You Measure Up?: A Progress Report on State Legislative Activity to Reduce Cancer Incidence and Mortality, South Carolina measured up to policy recommendations in just two of the eight evaluated issue areas. The report was released today by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN).   The 17 th edition of the report highlights that South Carolina must do more to reduce suffering and death from cancer.   “This year ...

Washington, D.C. – August 9, 2010 – The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) is launching a new print and online advertising campaign in congressional districts across the country this week, urging lawmakers to fully fund a lifesaving cancer prevention, early detection and diagnostic program that is celebrating 20 years of screening low income, uninsured, and medically underserved women for breast and cervical cancer.  The ads also send the message that when it ... funding for cancer research for the National Institutes of Health and National Cancer Institute in a way that keeps up with the increasing cost of doing research so that promising discovery isn’t stalled.  The new “Screening is Seeing” ad campaign follows an ad run in Capitol ...

... on Deficit Reduction, better known as the "super committee," announced it was unable to devise a deficit reduction plan that a majority of the committee's members could support. Under the Budget Control Act, the legislation that created the super committee, automatic ... be.   Also important to keep in mind is that more than 50 percent of cancer patients rely on Medicare and Medicaid for their treatment. ACS CAN fought hard to prevent cuts and protect access to these programs. On that front, the lack of a super committee plan yielded a good outcome as ... 30­-plus percent of the Medicare population is thought to be obese. Under the Affordable Care Act, these services will be offered without cost sharing.   DRUG SHORTAGE The American Cancer Society and ACS CAN are closely monitoring the nation's drug shortage. The overall number of ...

... on Deficit Reduction, better known as the "super committee," announced it was unable to devise a deficit reduction plan that a majority of the committee's members could support. Under the Budget Control Act, the legislation that created the super committee, automatic ... be.   Also important to keep in mind is that more than 50 percent of cancer patients rely on Medicare and Medicaid for their treatment. ACS CAN fought hard to prevent cuts and protect access to these programs. On that front, the lack of a super committee plan yielded a good outcome as ... 30­-plus percent of the Medicare population is thought to be obese. Under the Affordable Care Act, these services will be offered without cost sharing.   DRUG SHORTAGE The American Cancer Society and ACS CAN are closely monitoring the nation's drug shortage. The overall number of ...