Next week the U.S. Senate is expected to take up a short-term continuing resolution to fund the federal government through December.
American Cancer Society’s advocacy affiliate, ACS CAN, calls on Congress to act to begin implementing recommendations with existing legislative proposals that would increase cancer research, improve palliative care training and remove barriers to proven prevention.
WASHINGTON, D.C. July 14, 2016 The House Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Committee marked up its FY 2017 spending bill today including a $1.25 billion funding increase for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a $124 million funding boost for the National Cancer Institute (N
Advocacy affiliate ACS CAN urges Congress to commit to $1 billion increase in cancer research by end of year
WASHINGTON, D.C. June 22, 2016 The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) launched a new ad campaign this week to focus public and congressional attention on the need to boost federal funding for cancer research.
The Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education marked up its FY 2017 spending bill today including a $2 billion increase for medical research funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a $216 million increase for the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
Advocates from the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) will join more than 200 childhood cancer patients, survivors and their families on Capitol Hill today to ask Congress to support initiatives that would improve research, treatment, and outcomes for children with cancer.
WASHINGTON, D.C. May 10, 2016 A poll, recently commissioned by the One Voice Against Cancer Coalition (OVAC), found that 89 percent of likely voters feel cancer research is too important to become a partisan issue and 81 percent favor an increase in federal funding for cancer research.
WASHINGTON, D.C. April 6, 2016 The U.S. Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) today completed work on the last of the medical innovation bills that make up the companion to the 21st Century Cures legislation passed by the U.S.
WASHINGTON, DC February 9, 2016 The president 's fiscal year 2017 budget sets an ambitious course to accelerate discovery in the fight against cancer.