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Following New York State’s budget, agreement, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) has expressed its shock and dismay that the interests of tobacco and e-cigarette lobbyists are being put before public health. While both chambers of the legislature and the governor included identical language to extend Clean

Mayor Muriel Bowser’s recent budget proposal fails to include $160,000 which is needed to ensure implementation of the District’s new ordinance that raises the age of sale for tobacco products to 21 years old.

Sacramento, CA - Cancer patients, survivors and their families from throughout California gathered at the Capitol today. The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network’s (ACS CAN) annual Cancer Awareness Day at the Capitol assembled a large cadre of cancer advocates who urged lawmakers to make fighting cancer a

Cancer Patients and Survivors Traveled to Columbus to Urge Legislators to Make Cancer a Priority Volunteers Met with Ohio Lawmakers to Ask for Support for Increased Tobacco Taxes, Increased Tobacco Cessation and Prevention Funding, Funding for the Breast and Cervical Cancer Project and Palliative Care. Columbus, OH– April

ACS CAN applauds the introduction of the Research to Accelerate Cures and Equity (RACE) for Children Act (H.R. 1231/S. 456) – bipartisan legislation that would expand drug research for children with cancer, leading to better outcomes for pediatric patients.

ALBANY, NY - April 3, 2017 – As Governor Cuomo and New York State legislators continue to work on a budget for the new fiscal year, breast cancer survivors expressed their dismay and are calling on Albany to say NO to cuts in lifesaving cancer screenings. The New York State