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Alternative Medicaid Financing Proposals Could Jeopardize Cancer Care; Increase States’ Medicaid Costs

January 4, 2017
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming

States would likely face increased costs and cancer patients and survivors could face delayed preventive, diagnostic and curative care under alternative Medicaid financing models being considered by Congress. The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) today sent a letter detailing the organization’s concerns to select governors...

New precision medicine center gets NIH funding as One Degree campaign goes on

July 18, 2016
Tennessee

In Tennessee, news that a precision medicine center at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) will be launched with funds from the National Institute of Health (NIH) gave increased meaning to ACS CAN advocates who participated in the One Degree campaign to increase federal funding for cancer research. This month, VUMC

2016 TN Legislative Round-Up

May 24, 2016
Tennessee

Please click here to see a round-up of this year's state legislative activity.

Tennessee State Lead Ambassador

Tennessee

Brittney Block Brittney Block has been involved with ACS CAN since 2017 and with ACS since 2016. Brittney began her cancer advocacy work within Relay For Life Memphis as the area’s Advocacy Chair. She became an ACS CAN ACT! Lead thereafter and has created strong relationships with her local

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