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It is Time to Reduce the Burden of Cancer on Buckeyes
... testing, a game changer in the fight against cancer and an essential step in accessing precision medicine treatments by ensuring state-regulated health insurance, including Medicaid, covers appropriate biomarker testing for patients who could benefit. Dubbed ‘the right treatment at the right time,’ precision medicine has played a critical role in improving cancer outcomes. Despite its benefits, health insurance coverage of biomarker testing has not kept pace with innovations in treatment. “Furthermore, legislation to address copay ... affiliate, ACS CAN has successfully advocated for billions of dollars in cancer research funding, expanded access to quality affordable health care, and advanced proven tobacco control measures. We’re more determined than ever to stand together with our volunteers to end cancer as we ...
Campbellsville City Council Votes to Take a Step Backward
... council voted to weaken the smoke-free ordinance by allowing cigar smoking, which will reverse this progress and once again threaten workers’ health. “All workers—including those who work in bars—deserve the right to breathe clean, smoke-free air,” said Doug Hogan, American Cancer ... to secondhand smoke increases the risk of lung cancer and other diseases. No worker in Kentucky should be forced to choose between their health and their paycheck.” Studies have found that after communities like Campbellsville implement comprehensive, smoke-free laws, workers’ ... affiliate, ACS CAN has successfully advocated for billions of dollars in cancer research funding, expanded access to quality affordable health care, and advanced proven tobacco control measures. We’re more determined than ever to stand together with our volunteers to end cancer as we ...
Florida Legislature Passes Bill Taking First Step to Expand Access to Biomarker Testing
... The bill requires coverage for biomarker testing when supported by scientific and medical evidence under Florida Medicaid and state employee health insurance plans. However, it leaves out those covered by state-regulated private health insurance plans on the marketplace, which often include tourism, hospitality and agriculture employees who aren’t offered coverage through ... policymakers to bring this opportunity to the private market. All patients facing cancer and other diseases deserve to get the best possible care.” 0 Bill Stops Short of Requiring Coverage for Private Market Florida Legislature Passes Bill Taking First Step to Expand Access to ...
New Brighton Girl Scouts Take Tobacco Prevention Message to Minnesota Lawmakers at Day at the Capitol
... state and our community,” explained troop leader and parent Aimee Causey-Mullaney. “We learned about the toll tobacco takes in Minnesota in health care costs, in productivity and in human suffering. They decided to act, so here we are.” Lindsey Fabian, a local public health professional and mother of a troop member, worked with the girls as they learned about the impact of tobacco use. “Since I introduced this ...
Twenty Years of Broken Promises in the Fight Against Tobacco
... reached a landmark legal settlement that required major tobacco companies to pay states more than $246 billion over time as compensation for the health costs related to the suffering, death and disease caused by their dangerous products. Each year, ACS CAN and public health partners track state spending of the settlement revenue, as well as other tobacco revenue states bring in from taxes, in the Broken Promises ... prevention and cessation programs that are proven to reduce tobacco rates and save lives, not to mention save money through reduced health care costs. State legislatures have a responsibility to make curbing tobacco use a priority, and it’s time for lawmakers to step up and keep ...
Maine Lawmakers Should Make a New Year’s Resolution to Prioritize Cancer Related Public Policy
... Year and begin the 2025 legislative session, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) calls on lawmakers to prioritize public health and focus on a multipronged approach to cancer prevention and cancer treatment: increasing the tax on cigarettes by $2 per pack with a ... “With a new year and new legislative session upon us, Mainers – citizens and lawmakers alike – are thinking about how they can ensure good health for 2025. Fortunately, we have some of the answers,” said Julia MacDonald, director of government relations for ACS CAN in Maine. ... our state?” she continued. ACS CAN is also renewing efforts to increase access to biomarker testing - an increasingly important part of cancer care. In the case of a cancer diagnosis, biomarker testing allows doctors to precisely target a specific cancer so some patients may not have to ...
Guest Post: It's Not Harder Than Cancer: A Survivor's Perspective on Healthy Eating and Active Living
... the leading risk factors for cancer. There is also growing evidence that a healthy weight, good nutrition and regular physical activity improve health outcomes and quality of life for those undergoing cancer treatment, and reduce the risk of recurrence for cancer survivors. ACS CAN ... policies that promote healthy eating and active living. On Dec. 10, ACS CAN, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) and the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) hosted a policy seminar on nutrition and physical activity interventions for cancer survivors. ... wife and I can buy healthy and nutritious food. Many cancer survivors don't have the same level of support. Inequities exist in access to health care and health information, sidewalks, parks, grocery stores and farmers markets. Disparities in cancer diagnosis, mortality and survivorship ...
ACS CAN Releases New Report, Reducing the Cancer Burden in New York City
... for ourselves and others,” said Diane Nathaniel of Brooklyn. “For me it was Stage 3 Colon Cancer.” “Despite the many improvements to health reported by city and state health officials, cancer is still a depressing problem that differs amongst racial and ethnic minority groups, and neighborhoods in our City,” said Dr. Tenya Blackwell of the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health. “It’s time that the health care delivery system takes comprehensive redesign measures to partner with local community-based health organizations poised to address the social, ...
Cancer Advocates Hold Cancer Action Day at Capitol, Urging Lawmakers to Improve Access to Lung Cancer Screening & Paid Medical Leave, Ensure Privacy around Genetic Testing
... III lung cancer and navigating cost-sharing around screening. She emphasized how these out-of-pocket expenses can act as a deterrent to seeking care. “We need to do better in detecting lung cancer in New York. Screening is incredibly effective but very few New Yorkers who are eligible for screening actually receive it. This is because the cost burden for follow-up care is too high and inhibits people from completing the lifesaving screening process,” said Nesbitt. Advocates were also present at the Capitol ... advocacy affiliate, ACS CAN has successfully advocated for billions of dollars in cancer research funding, expanded access to quality affordable health care, and advanced proven tobacco control measures. We’re more determined than ever to stand together with our volunteers to end cancer ...
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Key Provisions of Tobacco Regulation Law
WASHINGTON, DC - March 19, 2012 In a significant victory for public health, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld most of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration 's (FDA) authority in place to regulate tobacco products. In the ruling, the appeals court upheld critical provisions of the law that: äó¢ Require large, graphic health warnings on cigarette packs; äó¢ Require tobacco manufacturers reserve significant packaging space for textual health warnings; and ... about 50,000 deaths from heart disease and cancer among nonsmokers. The financial cost of tobacco use is staggering with smoking-related health care expenditures totaling an estimated $96 billion annually between 2000 and 2004. In passing the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control ...
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