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Governor Signs Budget with Landmark Cancer Funding

... the fund’s total to $60 million. The innovation fund provides pilot grants for projects focused on cutting-edge cancer research and patient care. The budget also adds $1.2 million to the Mary Brogan Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program, bringing the program’s total ... The Mary Brogan Program is a federal-state partnership between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Florida Department of Health, providing lifesaving cancer screenings for women between the ages of 50-64 with incomes below 200% of the federal poverty level. At current ... advocacy affiliate, ACS CAN has successfully advocated for billions of dollars in cancer research funding, expanded access to quality affordable health care, and advanced proven tobacco control measures. We stand with our volunteers, working to make cancer a top priority for policymakers in ...

Cancer Patients and Survivors Call for Balanced, Comprehensive Opioid Package

... their needed pain medication. To strike the appropriate balance of curbing misuse and abuse of opioids while maintaining access to pain care for patients with legitimate needs, ACS CAN calls on both the House and the Senate to consider the Palliative Care Hospice Education and ... Society Cancer Action Network follows: “Overall, the House bill passed today is a thoughtful and balanced approach to the very serious public health crisis that has arisen from the misuse and abuse of opioids in this country. Of particular promise are provisions that will increase ... rein in the abuse of opioids. “While the SUPPORT for Communities and Patients Act makes significant strides toward responding to this public health crisis, we also urge the House and Senate to take up PCHETA, a bipartisan bill supported by 275 House co-sponsors and 29 Senate ...

Survey: Cancer Patients and Survivors Embrace Telehealth

... well addressed. Most respondents reported having had a phone visit with a telehealth provider about an issue directly related to their cancer care (55%) while some (43%) said they used a video visit. Those in urban areas were more apt to use video (55%) while those in rural areas were more likely to use the telephone visits (64%). “Considering the numerous challenges this pandemic has posed to patient care, the positive experience and high utilization of telehealth is one of the few bright spots,” said Lisa Lacasse, president of ACS CAN. “We ... willingness to adopt other technologies to facilitate remote care. More than 80% of respondents said they would use technologies, including health apps and wearable technology to manage their care if provided. The most popular adaption offered would eliminate a pharmacy trip, with 88% ...

New Report Highlights Lifesaving Community Programs Funded by Prevention Fund

... to save lives by preventing serious chronic diseases such as cancer. The report, Staying Well: Real Stories from the Prevention and Public Health Fund , profiles lifesaving programs in 17 states and communities that benefit from the Prevention and Public Health Fund, created by Congress in 2010 as part of the Affordable Care Act. In the two years since then, the Prevention Fund has funded evidence-based programs that are increasing access to proven disease ...

Governor Hochul Sets Sights on a Tobacco-free Generation

... taxes and ending the sale of menthol cigarettes and all other flavored tobacco products will reduce the tobacco burden, improving public health, limiting health care costs and generating revenue in New York. With approximately 12.8% of New York adults still smoking and 22,290 New Yorkers projected to die ...

Fact Sheet: Cigarette Tax Evasion

... lives. Ending untaxed sales from reservations will encourage at least 100,000 adult smokers to quit, saving 25,000 lives 1 Tobacco’s Impact on Health and Health Care Costs Adult Smoking Rate, New York – 18% (2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Survey) Number of Adult Smokers, New York – 2.6 million Deaths ...

SD Governor Signs Bill Giving Cancer Patients Equal Access to Oral Chemotherapy

... intravenously in an oncology clinic. “By signing this bill into law Governor Daugaard helps ensure South Dakota cancer patients get the care they need regardless of how their treatment is administered,” said David Benson, South Dakota government relations director for the American ... laws better reflect the reality of modern cancer care.” Previously, orally-administered cancer medications were sometimes covered under a health plan's pharmacy benefit rather than its medical benefit. For plans that require patients to pay a co-insurance for drugs, this resulted in ... in rural areas a better quality of life--sparing them long and needless commutes to oncology clinics. In addition to ACS CAN, several other health and patient advocacy groups supported this legislation including, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, the International Myeloma Foundation ...

Local Cancer Advocate Travels to Washington, D.C., to Urge Congress to Fund Research, Prevention

... 19 th annual One Voice Against Cancer lobby day to request cancer research funding at the National Cancer Institute and National Institutes of Health. “As an advocate, I’m grateful to Congress for the strong bipartisan support it has demonstrated over the past three years through ... by OVAC. Hurtig has been an ACS CAN volunteer for two years and currently attends law school at Kansas University, where she focuses on health care. She began volunteering for the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life at 15 years old, when her best friend’s stepmother was ...

North Dakota Voters Reject Tobacco Tax Increase

... as a result kids and veterans become the losers.  Taxpayers pay a price as well.  Measure 4 would have saved nearly $250 million annually in health care costs and generated an estimated $147 million per biennium in new revenue.  An estimated 1,000 North Dakotans die each year from ... e-cigarettes.  Raising tobacco taxes is a proven way to prevent kids from ever starting, encourage current tobacco users to quit, and reduce health care costs. North Dakota's tobacco tax has not been raised since 1993.  At just 44 cents per pack of cigarettes, it is ranked 47th in the ...

Cancer Advocates Extremely Disappointed in Defeat of Initiative I-185 in Montana After Big Tobacco Spends $18 Million to Defeat

... ACS CAN, released the following statement in response: “It has been an honor to stand united with doctors, nurses, hospitals and every major health and patient advocacy group in the state to try to pass this life saving tobacco tax policy. This could have been the most important public health policy passed in Montana in 13 years. “Initiative 185 would have done so much good for Montana, by saving lives, reducing health care costs and funding critical programs and services like Medicaid for some of our most vulnerable residents. 100,000 Montanans are now at risk of ...

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