Updates matching "Cancer Research Funding"

Advocates from the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) will join more than 200 childhood cancer patients, survivors and their families on Capitol Hill today to ask Congress to support initiatives that would improve research, treatment, and outcomes for children with cancer.

WASHINGTON, D.C. May 10, 2016 A poll, recently commissioned by the One Voice Against Cancer Coalition (OVAC), found that 89 percent of likely voters feel cancer research is too important to become a partisan issue and 81 percent favor an increase in federal funding for cancer research. American Cancer Society

WASHINGTON, D.C. April 6, 2016 The U.S. Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) today completed work on the last of the medical innovation bills that make up the companion to the 21 st Century Cures legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last year. A statement from

WASHINGTON, DC February 9, 2016 The president 's fiscal year 2017 budget sets an ambitious course to accelerate discovery in the fight against cancer. The proposed 13 percent increase for the National Cancer Institute (NCI) would go a long way to restore funding shortfalls that have severely hampered progress in

WASHINGTON February 1, 2016 President Obama today announced plans to launch the National Cancer Moonshot with a call for $1 billion in funding for specific cancer prevention and research initiatives intended to accelerate progress in FY16 and FY17. Following is a statement from ACS CAN President Chris Hansen: Families affected