Chris Hansen, president of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), issued the following statement today following remarks from Vice President Joe Biden about the need for a “national commitment to end cancer.”
Today the Aerospace Industries Association, the National Defense Industrial Association, Research!America and United for Medical Research joined to send Congress a letter urging all of America's elected representatives in the House and Senate to work together to move forward with responsible funding of our national security and medical research priorities.
Attempts to quit using cigarettes by adults stalled between 2011 and 2013, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Office on Smoking and Health (OSH).
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement approved today by negotiators in Atlanta reportedly includes a provision supported by public health groups that would protect the authority of member countries to enact lifesaving tobacco control measures.
The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network filed comments late yesterday on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Draft Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain, 2016.
WASHINGTON, D.C. September 28, 2015 More than 750 cancer patients, survivors and their loved ones from all 50 states and nearly every congressional district will be on Capitol Hill this week to ask members of Congress to make the fight against cancer a national priority.
WASHINGTON, D.C. September 9, 2015 The U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy released Step It Up!
WASHINGTON, D.C. August 27, 2015 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today sent warning letters to three tobacco manufacturers ITG Brands LLC, Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, Inc. and Sherman 's 1400 Broadway N.Y.C. Ltd.
WASHINGTON, D.C. Aug. 6, 2015 A majority of states are not measuring up on legislative solutions that prevent and fight cancer, according to a report released today by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN).
Reps. Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Tom Reed (R-NY) introduced bipartisan legislation today that would improve the experience of cancer patients and their families by better coordinating their care from the point of diagnosis and addressing the often debilitating symptoms of treatment.