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2018 ACS CAN Oklahoma City Cancer Forum

The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) advocates on a federal and state level for policies that protect and improve the health of Oklahomans and nationwide.   As an advocate for the people of Oklahoma and nationwide, ACS CAN works for policies that address quality of life, access to care, prevention and health and nutrition. As part of those efforts, ACS CAN will once again host its Oklahoma City Cancer Policy Forum to educate patients, providers, ...

2024 ACS CAN North Texas Cancer Advocacy Breakfast

... leading advocacy organization working every day to make issues facing cancer patients a national and state priority.  The Future of Cancer Care: Breakthroughs, Advances, and the Importance of Eliminating Barriers through Legislation The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network ... (ACSCAN) will host its annual Cancer Advocacy Breakfast on November 13, 2024. This event will bring together key leaders and decisionmakers in health care, the community, government, research, and academia to discuss the importance of diversity in clinical trials, and the impact on our ... GRAIL Genentech Johnson & Johnson Sanofi   In-Kind Media Sponsor CBS News Texas   ACS CAN is dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major public health problem through issue campaigns and voter education aimed at influencing lawmakers and candidates to support laws & policies to help ...

äóÖCampaign Against Cancer ' to Highlight Cancer Research Funding in '06 Congressional Elections

... proposals to elevate prevention, early detection and survivorship, increase the nation’s commitment to research and expand access to care. By the day’s end, more than 300 Members of Congress had signed the Promise. This week, ACS CAN is sending electoral kits to more than 3,500 ... in shiny red, blue and silver envelopes that include palm cards with questions voters are encouraged to ask candidates about their positions on health care reform, medical research funding, programs that enhance prevention and early detection efforts, and Association Health Plans and other proposals to allow health insurers to bypass state patien protections. The kits also include door hangers and lapel stickers ...

Cancer Advocates Release 2016 Legislative Scorecard

... legislative actions on the tobacco bills brought a halt to the tobacco industry’s lobbying influence that had blocked progress on key public health legislation for 20 years. The legislation, signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown in May 2016, will help prevent youth from a lifetime ... of cancer policy issues and holds lawmakers accountable for their voting record in the following cancer-related issue areas: Access to care                                                  Awareness and disparities Environment ... affiliate of the American Cancer Society, supports evidence-based policy and legislative solutions designed to eliminate cancer as a major health problem.  ACS CAN works to encourage elected officials and candidates to make cancer a top national priority. ACS CAN gives ordinary people ...

President’s FY25 Budget Prioritizes Funding for Cancer Research and Prevention

... reducing the cancer burden nationwide through sustained investment in accelerated research at the Advanced Research Projects Agency on Health (ARPA-H) and increased investment in cancer prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).   The budget also included ... Moonshot Program through FY26 by providing $2.9 billion in mandatory funding for over two years and increases for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Cancer Institute (NCI). The proposal would increase the CDC Cancer Programs by $90 million over FY23, including a $45 ... by the federal government must be prioritized to ensure progress to achieve the Moonshot goals continues.  On access to affordable, quality care...  “Equitable access to affordable, comprehensive care is imperative to truly realize the potential of the advances we have made and will ...

Hundreds of Patients, Survivors to Urge Lawmakers to Make Fight Against Cancer a Top National Priority

... supports patients' quality of life. With federal funding for cancer research, prevention and early detection programs and support for palliative care services that improve the quality of life of cancer patients, we will save more lives from cancer and give patients a better chance at ... to ensure that the fight against cancer remains a top national priority by protecting funding for cancer research at the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute, cancer prevention and early detection programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and evidence-based community prevention efforts made possible by the Prevention and Public Health Fund. Advocates also will be discussing the importance of legislation to improve patients' quality of life through advancement of the ...

President Biden Prioritizes Ending Cancer As We Know It In State of the Union

... cancer discovery through investment in research, increased access to cancer prevention, and improved access to affordable, comprehensive health coverage. “President Biden’s unequivocal commitment to changing the trajectory of the more than 200 diseases known as cancer is ... Increased federal investment in the fight against cancer, particularly for medical research funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute (NCI), critical cancer prevention programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as well ... the advances we have made and will make in how we prevent, detect, treat and promote survivorship, equitable access to affordable, comprehensive care is imperative. Making Marketplace subsidies permanent and closing the Medicaid coverage gap both play a pivotal role in achieving the ...

President Biden and Congress Reject Work Requirements in Debt Deal; Caps Should Not Lead to Cancer Research Cuts

... the President and Congress prioritized the fight against cancer in a proposal to lift the debt ceiling by maintaining access to affordable health insurance by rejecting Medicaid work requirements and ensuring veterans’ health care coverage by protecting funding for the PACT Act. Medicaid work requirements do not increase employment but instead only leaving individuals ...

2018 ACS CAN Tulsa Cancer Policy Forum

The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) advocates on a federal and state level for policies that protect and improve the health of Oklahomans and nationwide.   As an advocate for the people of Oklahoma and nationwide, ACS CAN works for policies that address quality of life, access to care, prevention and health and nutrition. As part of those efforts, ACS CAN will once again host its Oklahoma City Cancer Policy Forum to educate patients, providers, ...

Nation 's Leading Cancer Groups Urging Congress to Oppose Cuts to Cancer Research, Prevention Programs

... colonoscopies. A House-passed proposal to fund the federal government for the remainder of the fiscal year would cut the National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget by 5.2 percent and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) budget by 21 percent. “The proposed cuts would mark a ... CDC. OVAC members are calling on Congress to support funding for: • Cutting-edge research at the NIH, NCI, and National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities that holds the promise of producing groundbreaking cancer treatments and ways to expand access to them. • CDC ... targeting skin, prostate, ovarian and blood cancers. • The HRSA Patient Navigator Program, which helps cancer patients navigate the health care system and overcome barriers to health care, and HRSA Title VIII Nursing Programs. • Efforts at the Food and Drug Administration to further ...

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