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The U.S. Senate just passed the STAR Act, a bipartisan bill that lays the groundwork for new breakthroughs in researching and treating childhood cancer.

“We are going to keep going and keep pushing until as few people as possible ever have to hear the words, ‘you have colorectal cancer.’” Dr. Richard Wender, the chief cancer control officer at the American Cancer Society, made this declaration at an event held on Capitol Hill in March

In 2015, ACS CAN launched the One Degree campaign and called on Congress to increase cancer research funding by $1 billion. Now, after three years of hard work by ACS CAN volunteers, that ambitious goal has been reached. Congress just passed the federal budget for the 2018 fiscal year and

This week ACS CAN participated in a chemotherapy informational hearing at the State Capitol on the unequal cost cancer patients incur for oral (pill and liquid) versus intravenous (IV) chemotherapies on Idaho’s state-based health care plans. As targeted oral chemotherapy advances, it is apparent that the most effective or, in

The following letter was published in the Omaha World Herald on January 21, 2018. I support increasing the tobacco tax in Nebraska by a significant amount. I am a local health care provider in North Platte, Nebraska, and a volunteer with the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. I

The following letter was published in the Omaha World Herald on February 3, 2018. The easiest way to stop a lifetime of smoking is never to start in the first place. Our Legislature has a bill in hand that would raise the tobacco tax to $1.50 per pack of

The following letter was published in the Lincoln Journal Star on February 18, 2018 I recently talked with Sen. Adam Morfeld at a Day at the Capitol in Lincoln hosted by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, American Heart Association and American Lung Association. These groups are working

The following letter was published in the Lincoln Journal Star on January 14, 2018 The American Cancer Society estimates that about 10,000 Nebraskans will be newly diagnosed with cancer this year, including a projected 540 cases of skin cancer. That’s why I support a bill being considered

The following letter was published in the Omaha World Herald on February 12, 2018 Skin cancer is the most common form of all cancers in the United States and one that, despite repeated education efforts about the dangers of the sun and indoor tanning devices, continues to take the