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... survivors, caregivers and their families from all 50 states and nearly every Congressional district will unite tomorrow to lobby their members of Congress in support of comprehensive health care reform. The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) is hosting its annual leadership summit and lobby day to urge lawmakers to focus on patients, not politics, by supporting reform that ... reform a reality this year.”  One in four families affected by cancer says they have had to put off or delay care in the past year because of cost, according to a national poll recently released by ACS CAN.  The poll also found that in the previous 12 months, nearly 1 in 3 cancer ...

HARTFORD – Today lawmakers in the appropriations committee released their proposed budget for the State of Connecticut. After years of zero dollars being allocated for lifesaving tobacco control programs, today’s budget includes $12 million for the Tobacco and Health trust Fund. The following statement can be attributed to Bryte Johnson, Connecticut director of government relations for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN): ...

  JEFFERSON CITY —  One state representative hopes to outlaw the use of tanning beds by younger teenagers. O'Fallon Republican Rep. Nick Schroer said parental consent simply is not good enough. It's been almost five ... Messerli lost her 36-year-old husband, Kelly, to melanoma skin cancer. She said he was a tanning bed user as a teenager. "Kelly was the father of three children," Emily Messerli said. "He was my husband. He was a son, a brother, an uncle and friends to many, many people." Medical experts ... sunlight. They said 10 minutes in a tanning bed is equivalent to an hour under the sun. The UV produced by tanning beds adds to the damage that can lead to squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) the second-most common form of skin cancer, according to SkinCancer.org . One instance of such exposure ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- July 17, 2009 -- “Today the cancer community is celebrating the House Appropriations Committee passage of the FY 2010 Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations bill that provides $30.9 billion for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), ... treatments for is a critical component of a comprehensive approach to defeating a disease that will kill thousands of Americans this year and cost the economy billions of dollars.” ACS CAN, the nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society, supports evidence-based policy and legislative solutions ...