Updates matching "Cancer Research Funding"

WASHINGTON, DC March 4, 2013 Cancer patients, survivors and their loved ones are calling on Congress to restore critical funding for cancer research and prevention programs now that sequestration has taken effect, leveling across-the-board cuts for domestic programs. The 5.1 percent cut in funding for the National Institutes of Health

WASHINGTON, D.C. Feb. 5, 2013 The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) today released a new report, Catalyst for Cures: How Federally Funded Cancer Research Saves Lives, that underscores the threat posed by sequestration to future progress in the fight to end death and suffering related to cancer.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- December 12, 2012 -- The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) is calling on the White House and congressional leaders to make cancer a top priority as negotiations continue over reducing the federal deficit. Christopher W. Hansen, president of ACS CAN, the advocacy affiliate of

Tomorrow, more than 600 cancer patients, survivors, caregivers and their families from all 50 states and nearly every congressional district will unite to ask members of Congress to make the fight against cancer a top priority by funding cancer research and prevention programs.

WASHINGTON, D.C. July 18, 2012 -People with cancer and their families are disappointed that appropriators in the U.S. House of Representatives plan to flat line cancer research and eliminate funding for critical programs that would improve access to chronic disease prevention and treatment in the FY 2013 Labor, Health and

WASHINGTON, DC -- July 9, 2012 äóî Volunteer advocates from the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) will join cancer patients, survivors, caregivers, physicians, and researchers from 14 other organizations in Washington, DC, this week to urge lawmakers to support funding for critical cancer research and prevention programs

NASHUA, N.H. -- The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), the New England Division of the American Cancer Society and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center (NCCC) briefed members of New Hampshire's congressional delegation today in Nashua to encourage sustained federal funding for cancer research so