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Cancer Advocates React to Governor’s Budget
... an organization dedicated to reducing suffering and death from cancer, ACS CAN is pleased to see the governor taking steps to address public health initiatives in his budget. In his proposed budget, Gov. Pritzker maintained funding for tobacco prevention and tobacco cessation, and the Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program, both administered by the Department of Public Health. “Tobacco prevention and cessation funding ensure evidence-based strategies are implemented to reduce tobacco use, the number one cause ... progress made stall and we are facing skyrocketing youth tobacco use. “The Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program helps fill the health care coverage gap by providing low-income, uninsured and underinsured women access to mammograms and cervical cancer screenings. The impacts of ...
Cancer Survivors, Caregivers Rally at State Capitol for Improved Prevention
... Disease Control’s recommended funding level. Comprehensive, adequately funded tobacco control programs reduce tobacco use, resulting in lower health care costs and fewer deaths from tobacco-related illnesses like cancer. Prohibit minors under age 18 from using indoor tanning devices. Skin cancer ... cancer rates across the country. Protect funding for breast and cervical cancer screenings for low-income women. Women who lack access to health care coverage are more likely to have their cancer detected at a later stage, when the disease is deadlier and more expensive to treat. To ...
200 Cancer Survivors, Caregivers Rally in Springfield for Breast, Cervical Cancer Funding
... uninsured women. “IBCCP providers have bravely weathered a budget stalemate that now approaches three years, offering the best possible cancer care despite these circumstances,” said Heather Eagleton, Illinois government relations director for ACS CAN. “But even with these efforts, ... continue to fight for it. That’s why I’m at the Capitol today and why I’m urging our lawmakers to protect its funding.” The current health care law offers women greater access to preventive cancer screenings and treatment. But gaps remain for women who continue to be uninsured ... 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 ...
Patient Groups Call for End to Budget Stalemate, Urge Immediate Prevention Funding
... Gov. Bruce Rauner’s state budget proposal for fiscal year 2018, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), Illinois Public Health Association, Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force and Susan G. Komen Chicagoland and Memorial affiliates released the following ... legislation and push it through as quickly as possible. “Every day we put off fully funding IBCCP, another woman is forced to wait for care, and another life is put at risk. It’s grim to think about just how many lives have already been lost or put in danger because of the budget ... government relations director for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network; Tom Hughes, executive director for the Illinois Public Health Association; Anne Marie Murphy, Ph.D., executive director for the Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force; Sean Tenner, board ...