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August 2012 Monthly Advocacy Update

Stay up to date in between Monthly Updates with Cancer CANdor , a blog from ACS CAN's President.   ACS CAN LEADERSHIP SUMMIT AND LOBBY DAY   More than 500 ACS CAN volunteers and staff from all 50 states and nearly every ... district will gather in Washington, D.C. from September 12-15 for the sixth annual ACS CAN Leadership Summit and Lobby Day. Over the course of the event, the top two leadership tiers of ACS CAN's national volunteer organization -- state lead ambassadors (SLAs) and ambassador constituent ... Services  Provisions in the Affordable Care Act that require new private health plans to cover specific women's preventive services at no cost to patients took effect in August, including services important to preventing cancer and catching it early, such as annual well-women visits ...

Reducing the Cancer Burden in New York City

New ACS CAN report takes an in-depth look at the state of cancer in New York City. 40,126 New York City residents were diagnosed with cancer annually ... email [email protected] . PLEASE NOTE: A minor error was found in the Queens and Staten Island borough profiles located in the appendix of the report. The error has been corrected. Please download the revised borough profiles below.  The complete report has been fixed as well to ...

Montana Cancer Summit Speaker Bios

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Whitney Jones, MD, Medical Advisor for GRAIL, Inc. Dr. Whitney Jones is a Gastroenterologist, a former Clinical Professor of Medicine and current adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health and information services at the University of Louisville.  He is a ... pragmatic state-based laws which lower barriers to access evidence-based CRC screening. Kentucky is the first state in the nation to mandate no cost sharing coverage for preventative evidence-based genetic panel testing for hereditary cancers including Lynch Syndrome.  These laws have ... three grandsons, two granddaughters and one rescue dog. She is the 2013 St George National Award from the American Cancer Society and the ACS CAN 2009 Montana Advocate of the Year. In 2019, Lois was awarded the “Gail Michelotti Public Health Activist Award. She is a 26-year cancer ...

8th Annual Rhode Island Research Breakfast Speaker Biographies

8 th Annual Rhode Island Research Breakfast Speakers   Bernard A. Jackvony, JD Bernard A. Jackvony is of counsel to Pannone Lopes Devereaux & O'Gara LLC. From 1997 to 1999, Bernie served as Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island. He earned his undergraduate from Bryant University, his master's degree from Boston University, and his J.D. from Suffolk ... service on the Florida Division Board of Directors. In November 2011, he was elected to serve on the National Board of Directors for ACS CAN. Serving as the Research Breakfast Committee Chair for the past seven years, Bernie is not only responsible for the inception of the event, he ...

Social Justice Groups, Parent Advocates and Public Health Organizations Kick Off “Flavors Hook Kids NYC” Campaign

... Groups, Parent Advocates and Public Health Organizations Kick Off “Flavors Hook Kids NYC” Campaign Call on City Leaders to Restrict the Sale of Flavored Tobacco Nearly 81 Percent of Young Smokers Start with a Flavored Product NEW YORK, NY – April 17, 2019 – A diverse group of national and local organizations have joined ... Levine and Cabrera for their action and urge the Council to pass these pieces of legislation.” “Flavors in tobacco products and e-cigarettes can hook youth on nicotine,” said Health Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot . “Big Tobacco designed menthol cigarettes as a starter product for ...

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