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What does it mean to be an advocate?
- Make your voice heard! Communicate with legislators about issues that affect blood cancer patients, family members or caregivers.
- Represent blood cancer patients among local healthcare coalitions.
- Help bring media attention to impending issues.
Federal Alerts
Your immediate action is needed to help increase cancer research funding at the National Institutes of Health! A letter is being circulated in Congress urging that NIH's budget be increased by as much as 12 percent in FY 2011; increasing the institute's total budget to $35 billion. But most Congressional offices will not sign on to such a letter without prompting from their constituents. Your support is critical to increasing cancer research funding! The deadline to sign this letter has been extended to Friday, March 19 at noon. Please take one minute to contact your representative and urge him or her to sign the letter now. (View full details)
A cancer research program that supports blood cancer research is at stake and your immediate help is needed to save it! Without this program, blood cancer researchers may be forced to abandon research projects that could lead to the next breakthrough in cancer treatment. But it is not too late for Congress to help. Please take one minute to urge your representatives to make a programmatic request to fund this program now! (View full details)
A support program for blood cancer patients is on the chopping block and your urgent help is needed to save it! This program has allowed The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) and other patient organizations to support patients in their treatment and care -- especially those with the greatest need. Without this assistance, LLS and other patient groups will have to cut assistance programs to the most vulnerable blood cancer patients. This patient assistance program will be eliminated if you do not help now! Please help save this important program by urging your representatives to retain funding for this program now!
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The president's recently released budget proposal includes increases of just 3.2 percent for NIH and 3.16 percent for NCI. Advocates are urged to contact their legislators and urge them to increase both NIH and NCI's budget by 13.5 percent; increases of $4.2 billion for NIH and $691 million for NCI. Please contact your elected official now! (View full details)
Reps. Lois Capps and Charles Boustany and Sen. Mary Landrieu have introduced the Comprehensive Cancer Care Improvement Act (H.R. 1844 and S. 1773). The bills seek to coordinate active treatment and ensure a smooth transition from that treatment to survivorship care and follow-up by establishing a new Medicare service for cancer care planning, and authorizing model programs for delivery of coordinated cancer care, including initiatives targeting the medically underserved. Please, urge your elected officials to support the Comprehensive Cancer Care Improvement Act now! (View full details)
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