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South Carolinians Join Hundreds of Cancer Patients, Survivors Nationwide to Call on Congress: Make Cancer a National Priority

... the advocates were as dedicated as ever to critical issues, including increased cancer research and prevention funding, keeping Affordable Care Act tax credits and supporting the Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act (MCED).  “Cancer hasn’t stopped, so neither have ... addition to urging lawmakers to boost research and prevention funding, ACS CAN volunteers also encourage lawmakers to ensure that the Affordable Care Act tax credits that are scheduled to expire at the end of 2022 are made permanent and to cosponsor the Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection ... advocacy affiliate, ACS CAN has successfully advocated for billions of dollars in cancer research funding, expanded access to quality affordable health care, and made workplaces, including restaurants and bars, smoke-free. As we mark our 20th anniversary, we’re more determined than ever ...

Representative Ivy Spohnholz Receives National Distinguished Advocacy Award for Championing Lifesaving Cancer Public Policy

... work in the passing of House Bill 265 to expand telehealth services for residents in Alaska paves the way for innovation in rural access to care,” said Lisa Lacasse, president of ACS CAN. “Thanks to her determination, cancer patients with complex cases have the opportunity to use ... of her own legislative colleagues, majority and minority together, to pass a bill modernizing telehealth rules for both medical and behavioral health. Played a critical role behind the scenes, helping navigate, shepherd, advise, and negotiate ACS CAN priority issues through the legislative ... get mired in technical bureaucracy or partisan politics. The result of our work together is the ability for cancer patients to get advice and care from the top medical centers in the nation,” said Emily Nenon, ACS CAN Alaska government relations director. “Alaska’s cancer patients ...

ACS CAN Releases Cancer Fighting Priorities for 2019 for New York

... cancer requires bold new public policies that promote cancer prevention, early detection of cancer, and expand access to quality, affordable health care.   Cancer Screenings Save Lives All New Yorkers deserve to have access to a screening that could save their lives. The New York State Cancer ... Support policies to protect school nutrition guidelines. Support policies to promote healthy eating in restaurants.   Access to Treatment and Care   Cancer is often a very expensive and complicated condition to treat, requiring a team of medical professionals working together to help a ...

New Report: Arizona Has Room to Improve Its Cancer-Fighting Public Policies

... tobacco use.” How Do You Measure Up? rates states in eight specific areas of public policy that can help fight cancer: increased access to care through Medicaid, access to palliative care, balanced pain control policies, cigarette tax levels, smoke-free laws, funding for tobacco prevention and cessation programs, cessation ... helped defeat Senate Bill 1147, which would have raised the legal age of sale for tobacco to 21 but done little to sincerely protect public health. It did not define electronic cigarettes as a product of Big Tobacco, and the bill explicitly prohibited municipalities from establishing ...

U.S. Bank Lights of Hope Campaign

... 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 change public policy to end cancer as we know it for ... a Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations bill that for the first time included $12.5 million in dedicated funding for the development of palliative care research and $6 million to fund a new initiative for improving cancer outcomes for Native American people. ACS CAN volunteers took nearly ...

ACS CAN Promos

... Fight Cancer. September 30, 2025   Teresa is fighting cancer. What about Congress? September 22, 2025   Congress: We can’t afford increased health care costs. Protect access to care. June 17, 2025   Cuts to cancer research mean future cures will disappear. June 17, 2025   Medicaid helped Melannie fight cancer. Others ...

Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Key Provisions of Tobacco Regulation Law

WASHINGTON, DC - March 19, 2012 In a significant victory for public health, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld most of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration 's (FDA) authority in place to regulate tobacco products. In the ruling, the appeals court upheld critical provisions of the law that: äó¢ Require large, graphic health warnings on cigarette packs; äó¢ Require tobacco manufacturers reserve significant packaging space for textual health warnings; and ... about 50,000 deaths from heart disease and cancer among nonsmokers. The financial cost of tobacco use is staggering with smoking-related health care expenditures totaling an estimated $96 billion annually between 2000 and 2004. In passing the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control ...

Guest Post: It's Not Harder Than Cancer: A Survivor's Perspective on Healthy Eating and Active Living

... the leading risk factors for cancer. There is also growing evidence that a healthy weight, good nutrition and regular physical activity improve health outcomes and quality of life for those undergoing cancer treatment, and reduce the risk of recurrence for cancer survivors. ACS CAN ... policies that promote healthy eating and active living. On Dec. 10, ACS CAN, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) and the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) hosted a policy seminar on nutrition and physical activity interventions for cancer survivors. ... wife and I can buy healthy and nutritious food. Many cancer survivors don't have the same level of support. Inequities exist in access to health care and health information, sidewalks, parks, grocery stores and farmers markets. Disparities in cancer diagnosis, mortality and survivorship ...

ACS CAN Releases New Report, Reducing the Cancer Burden in New York City

... for ourselves and others,” said Diane Nathaniel of Brooklyn.  “For me it was Stage 3 Colon Cancer.”  “Despite the many improvements to health reported by city and state health officials, cancer is still a depressing problem that differs amongst racial and ethnic minority groups, and neighborhoods in our City,” said Dr. Tenya Blackwell of the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health. “It’s time that the health care delivery system takes comprehensive redesign measures to partner with local community-based health organizations poised to address the social, ...

Patient Groups Call for End to Budget Stalemate, Urge Immediate Prevention Funding

... Gov. Bruce Rauner’s state budget proposal for fiscal year 2018, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), Illinois Public Health Association, Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force and Susan G. Komen Chicagoland and Memorial affiliates released the following ... legislation and push it through as quickly as possible.   “Every day we put off fully funding IBCCP, another woman is forced to wait for care, and another life is put at risk. It’s grim to think about just how many lives have already been lost or put in danger because of the budget ... government relations director for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network; Tom Hughes, executive director for the Illinois Public Health Association; Anne Marie Murphy, Ph.D., executive director for the Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force; Sean Tenner, board ...

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