The California Senate Health Committee voted to advance a bill that would increase access to biomarker testing, a critical step in accessing precision medicine treatments that can lead to fewer side effects, improved survival, better quality of life and potentially lower costs for cancer patients.
The cost of cancer care is substantially impacting the lives of cancer patients and survivors, forcing them to make significant lifestyle changes, and causing some to incur long-term medical debt.
Flavors Hook Kids DC, a coalition of public health and advocacy organization, including the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, applad Mayor Boswer for including funding for the Flavored Tobacco Product Prohibition Amendment Act of 2021.
ACS CAN is joined by more than 65 organizations asking for colorectal screening to be included in the budget.
In his State of the Union address tonight, President Biden again called on the nation to work together to end cancer as we know it.
MONTGOMERY, AL – February 4, 2022 – An event held late Thursday by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) and U.S. Rep.
El Presidente anunció esta mañana que está 'reactivando' su compromiso de 'poner fin al cáncer tal como lo conocemos', basándose en la elevada y sólida inversión inicial en la Iniciativa Nacional Misión contra el Cáncer (Cancer Moonshot) enfocada en descubrimiento, priorizando una mayor adopción de la prevención y abordando las inequidades de salud.
La Red de Acción Contra el Cáncer de la Sociedad Americana Contra el Cáncer está celebrando el 50º aniversario de la promulgación de la Ley Nacional del Cáncer por parte del presidente Richard Nixon. La ley, que entró en vigencia el 23 de diciembre de 1971, transformó el enfoque de la nación para prevenir, detectar y tratar la enfermedad.
Una nueva encuesta proporciona información sobre cómo un programa nacional de licencia familiar y médica remunerada podría beneficiar a los pacientes y sobrevivientes de cáncer que se enfrentan con el absentismo laboral y la pérdida de ingresos debido a su enfermedad.
More than 150 organizations representing patients, providers and health equity advocates sent a letter to Congress today urging them to pass the Diversifying Investigations Via Equitable Research Studies for Everyone (DIVERSE) Trials Act into law.